Kangaroo Mother Care And Post Natal Depression: What Are World Leading Experts And Parents Saying?
With as many as twenty-five percent of new moms experiencing some form of postnatal depression (PND) symptoms. It has been shown that the inclusion of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) techniques can help to reduce the symptoms of postnatal depression. There are now many reports from parents, both men and women, who have used the Kangaroo Mother Care therapy as a means to avoiding and eliminating any symptoms of postnatal depression, and in almost all cases, this is exactly what has been achieved. It would seem that the practise is having huge success in terms of how Mothers are feeling after giving birth.
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World leading experts in both pregnancy and postpartum depression have been looking very seriously at the cause and effect of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) on the depressive illness known as PND for some years. By all accounts it would appear that the general consensus from the experts is that the technique can be extremely effective in reducing the onset of PND in new moms.
Arising from the way that Kangaroos care for their new born Joey for around four months after birth, in a pouch positioned just below the mother's chest, KMC is about skin-to-skin contact between mother and new born baby. This same technique used immediately after childbirth for women, is having a resounding effect on both Mothers and their newborn baby