{"id":8702,"date":"2016-12-12T18:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T18:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyonhealth.net\/blog\/2016\/12\/12\/skin-to-skin-kangaroo-baby-care-tied-to-better-health-years-later\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T18:18:29","slug":"skin-to-skin-kangaroo-baby-care-tied-to-better-health-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/12\/skin-to-skin-kangaroo-baby-care-tied-to-better-health-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin-to-skin \u2018kangaroo\u2019 baby care tied to better health years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) \u2013 Premature and underweight newborns may be healthier as children and young adults if they pass their early days with their bare chests nestled directly against their mothers\u2019 breasts, a new study suggests. Researchers focused on a practice known as \u201ckangaroo care,\u201d which has been linked to lower infant mortality and better developmental outcomes for vulnerable babies. Kangaroo care includes skin-to-skin contact between the newborn and mother, exclusive breastfeeding, early discharge from the hospital after delivery and close follow-up care at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) \u2013 Premature and underweight newborns may be healthier as children and young adults if they pass their early days with their bare chests nestled directly against their mothers\u2019 breasts, a new study suggests. Researchers focused on a practice known as \u201ckangaroo care,\u201d which has been linked to lower infant mortality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}