Abstract
Breastfeeding low birth weight and premature babies for much constitutes a challenge for mothers, pediatricians and nurses. In December 1999, the Ministry of Health launched the Norm of Humanized Attention to the Newborn Weight Loss(Kangaroo Method), which provides guidelines for its application in the units of the SUS-Sistema Único of health.
In general terms, this rule provides for: 1. opening from neonatal units broadly to parents, enabling them, as early
as possible, to touch the child; 2. prolonged skin-to-skin contact, particularly with the mother, to promote the
well-being and the baby's faster adaptation to extrauterine life and improve breastfeeding performance; 3. high more baby's early development and continued skin-to-skin contact at home until about 40 weeks of age gestational. Similar
guidelines have been published by São Paulo State Health Department - Resolution SS - 62, of 6-5-2001, Approves the
Care Norms Humanized for Low Weight Newborns (Method Kangaroo) in the State of São Paulo.
References
Toma TS. Método mãe canguru: como facilitar aleitamento materno em recém-nascidos de baixo peso ao nascer. São Paulo: Instituto de Saúde; 2002.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2002 Tereza Setsuko Toma
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