Megan Dooley

Issues

1. The benefits of kangaroo care (skin-to-skin) to a preterm infant and mother in the neonatal intensive care unit Introduction
   
   “In New Zealand, nearly 8 out of 100 babies are born preterm and that number has been increasing annually by 2.1 per cent over the last 20 years”
   
   (Healthy Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand, 2012, p.1).
   
    
   
   Preterm birth and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit disrupts neonate neurobehavioral development, physiological development and interrupts maternal-infant bonding by separation from mother for long periods of time (Jefferies, 2012). “Kangaroo care is now co…