• Humanized Care for Low Weight Newborns – Kangaroo Method – humanized neonatal assistance based on four basic principles: receiving newborns and their families, respecting the singular qualities of individuals, promoting skin-to-skin contact, and engaging the mother in childcare.
Kangaroo Mother Care is an effective way to meet a premature baby’s needs for warmth, frequent breastfeeding, protection from infection, stimulation, safety and love.
The WHO document Kangaroo mother care: a practical guide provides guidance on how to organize services in health facilities and on what is needed to provide effective "Kangaroo mother care".
Kangaroos also have large, muscular hips; a long, thick, sinuous tail; and, of course, huge feet—a characteristic that has earned them the designation “Macropodidae,” meaning “long feet.”
To supply the 400-member community of Penneshaw, on Kangaroo Island, “water is drawn from the ocean and forced through a membrane at high pressure to remove the salt.