Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care during the first 72 hours of life on early growth and breastfeeding in normal birthweight newborns: protocol for a randomised controlled trial
Aarti Kumar, Malvika Mishra, Madhuri Tiwari, Vinay Pratap Singh, Anushka Srivastava, Mala Kumar, Anjoo Agarwal, Shakal Narayan Singh, Shalini Tripathi, Mohd Salman Khan, Pradeep Kumar, Rashmi Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Gary L Darmstadt, Vishwajeet Kumar · 2026
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Aarti Kumar and a team of co-authors lay out a trial testing extended kangaroo mother care for healthy, normal-weight newborns. Their protocol appeared in twenty twenty-six. Skin-to-skin care already saves preterm babies, but its benefits for full-size infants in the first days are underexplored.
Five hundred sixteen mother-baby pairs at three public facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India, will be randomized. The care group gets at least eight hours of daily skin-to-skin contact with exclusive breastfeeding for the first three days. The trial measures early weight loss, speed of weight gain, and breastfeeding quality. If prolonged contact helps even robust newborns, a cheap, drug-free practice could spread through ordinary maternity wards.
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| CREATOR | Aarti Kumar, Malvika Mishra, Madhuri Tiwari, Vinay Pratap Singh, Anushka Srivastava, Mala Kumar, Anjoo Agarwal, Shakal Narayan Singh, Shalini Tripathi, Mohd Salman Khan, Pradeep Kumar, Rashmi Kumar, Ashok Kumar, Gary L Darmstadt, Vishwajeet Kumar |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |