Family-Centered Care: Kangaroo Care: Worth the Time and Effort

I will never forget early on in my daughter Becky's NICU stay when my mother-in-law, a former RN, asked, “I wonder when they will let you do kangaroo care?” Confused, I shrugged but filed that nugget away in my NICU parent brain. A week later, I was able to hold my daughter and reminded the nurses again and again that I wanted to make sure I could do “kangaroo care.” I silently and nervously looked about me in the NICU. Where was the kangaroo?