The April issue of Pediatrics contains an article about Kangaroo
Mother Care for term infants.
<http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/113/4/858>
The abstract doesn't mention temperature as a measured outcome, but
possibly the full text (which I can't access, not being a subscriber)
has this info.  The abstract states that babies who spent an hour
after birth kangarooing had better state organization and motor
system modulation 4 hours later than babies who had been separated
from their mothers shortly after birth.

KMC has been studied a lot in preemies but apparently there was/is a
need to know more about how it affects term babies.

Margaret
LLLL
Longmont, CO

>Hello fellow Lactnetters!
>
>I will be presenting a very short staff education topic in two days on
>Kangaroo Care/ Skin-to-Skin Care. We would mostly use it for our otherwise
>health babies who are unable to keep their temperatures up. We'd like to
>use it more, but we need to convince the nurses that it works.
>
>Does anyone know the efficacy (as in the rise in temperature in degrees) of
>this practice? I know the nurses will be asking, and I just want to be able
>to give them something concrete to think about.
>
>If you know the efficacy of the temperature, please let me know.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Kate Cropp CNP, IBCLC, MSN
>Nashville, Tennessee, USA

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