{"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:\/\/stuff2host.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) &#8211; 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) &#8211; 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:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}