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Newborn Baby Losing Weight After Birth: What’s Normal and When to Act<\/b><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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You are sitting next to your baby’s incubator in the NICU, watching monitors beep, wishing you could do something \u2014 anything \u2014 that actually helps.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can. And the most powerful thing you can do requires no equipment, no training beyond basic guidance, and costs nothing: hold your baby against your skin.<\/b><\/p>\n

Kangaroo Mother Care is not a comfort measure while medicine does the real work. <\/span>It is a medically proven intervention that reduces premature baby mortality, accelerates brain development, and establishes breastfeeding<\/b> \u2014 and the evidence behind it is stronger than almost anything else in neonatal medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For families seeking <\/span>kangaroo mother care for premature babies in Secunderabad<\/b>, <\/span>Shenoy Hospitals<\/b><\/a> integrates KMC as a core component of its NICU family-centred care programme.<\/span><\/p>\n

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