Kangaroo Care Innovations

Problem: Managing tubes and lines during skin-to-skin care in the NICU can lead to accidental extubation for baby, and unwanted anxiety for parents and clinicians.

Solution: Our unique products allow clinicians to transfer a NICU baby to a parent more easily for skin-to-skin care, and provides parents and clinicians confidence that all lines and tubes will safely stay in place.

JS Design Group is partnering with Gold Health, LLC to create the next generation of products to support skin-to-skin care in the NICU. If you are interested in trialing Kangarobe™ please contact me. We are in the process of completing a study at Stanford’s LPCH and can share our interim data with you. Please visit The Kangarobe website!

What are the benefits of kangaroo care?

The benefits of kangaroo care to the baby include:

  • Stabilization of the baby's heart rate

  • Improved (more regular) breathing pattern

  • Improved oxygen saturation levels (an indicator of how well oxygen is being delivered to all the infants organs and tissues)

  • Gain in sleep time

  • More rapid weight gain

  • Decreased crying

  • More successful breastfeeding episodes

  • Earlier hospital discharge

The benefits of kangaroo care to the parents include:

  • Improved bonding, feelings of closeness with their babies

  • Increased breast milk supply

  • Increased confidence in ability to care for their babies

  • Increased confidence that their babies are well cared for

  • Increased sense of control

A mom and baby at Stanford Healthcare LPCH using The Kangarobe.