Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Kangaroo Care

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Neonatal Intensive Care Unit brochure

At Mount Alvernia Hospital, we have a dedicated Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) which provides special care for newborns should they require a little help during the early days. Here, babies are nursed under radiant warmers to keep warm and for close observation. We have precision equipment to monitor baby’s heartbeat, breathing rate and oxygen intake.

Kangaroo Care

Kangaroo care is the practice of giving babies skin-to-skin contact with their parents, enabling them to share warmth and natural closeness. It was developed in Bogota, Columbia and has been used successfully in South America, Europe and the United States.

At Mount Alvernia Hospital, we are dedicated to meeting your needs as parents and advocate Kangaroo Care as we believe it benefits our patients and is good for babies.

Benefits of Kangaroo Care

Kangaroo Care is good for any baby but for premature babies, it can be especially helpful to the baby’s growth and development
Kangaroo Care helps premature babies grow faster, leave their incubators sooner and achieve deeper, more restful sleep. Premature babies given Kangaroo Care benefit from weight gain and can sleep better for longer.
At Mount Alvernia Hospital, many of our mothers were pleasantly surprised to find that they could bring their babies home 2 weeks before the expected discharge date. In this way, Kangaroo Care helps shorten the hospital stay and effectively reduces the hospital bill.
Breastfeeding mothers who practise Kangaroo Care generally produce more milk.
Kangaroo Care provides parents whose premature babies are in the NICU with an opportunity to ease the ache of separation and lessen physical barriers such as the plastic walls of the incubator and connections to medical equipment.

Our services are available to both babies born at Mount Alvernia and from other hospitals.


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