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"Kangaroo baby care" or "skin-to-skin contact" describes the practice of holding a preterm infant naked (except for a diaper) between the mother's breasts. The baby's face pokes out of the top of the mother's dress like a baby kangaroo's. Rey and Martinez in Bogota, Colombia1 pioneered the home care of premature infants as small as 1000 g, the mother being taught to hold her baby head-up kangaroo-style to encourage lactation, prevent aspiration, and reduce rejection. Education and motivation of the mother in the care of preterm infants makes obvious sense in the developing world, but kangaroo baby care has also been applied in many developed countries in conjunction with neonatal intensive care rather than as a replacement for incubators and monitors.2-4
Andrew Whitelaw (Sun,) studied this question.