We are working hard at getting Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) established as the norm here at our hospital. The parents, especially many dads, are quite eager and interested in KMC (maybe it should be renamed? KPC, for parent care?). I explain the hormone interaction in both mom/baby and dad/baby that occur when doing KMC. The dads like to hear that doing KMC enhances their fathering ability. Sometimes, mom has to beg him to get baby back for nursings. It's really nice when there are twins involved - each parent gets a baby. I developed a tri-fold pamphlets that we give out to all parents that focuses on the normal newborn, rather than SCN situations, as there didn't seem to be anything out there addressing normal situations. Our clin spec also developed one for SCN parents which is given to parents in the nsy. We also have a special KMC chair that is so comfortable one of our SCN moms had to buy dad one of these chairs for Christmas because he was threatening to steal ours! So this may be an activity dads who get hung up on feeding their baby will readily embrace. And don't forget male lactation! Pam Hirsch, RN,BSN,CLC Clinical Lead, Lactation Services Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Barrington, IL 60010 *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html