The power of touch: How kangaroo care is changing outcomes for premature babies

Written by Taylor Woods, WCPO

EDGEWOOD, Ky. — Nurses say skin-to-skin contact, also known as kangaroo care, plays a major role in a baby’s development and a parent’s connection in the first moments after birth.

Kate Tabler and her newborn baby, Lucas George Lonneman, have been bonding this way every day since he was born in the NICU at St. Elizabeth.

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