
Heroic Measures: Dilemmas in the Care of Sick Children
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Kangaroo Method - A Natural Alternative to the Incubator
The human incubator is a natural alternative to all the technological and artificial aids in an intensive care unit. If you take the baby naked and put them skin to skin, you have all the receptors on the skin, and this contact stimulate immediately. And er, i believe that the mother and baby, they create energy together and er. As soon as a baby is in a stable condition, i think it's time to try this. But first of all, we can't take out very sick babies. We muste choose babies who are in stable conditions. But we can shorten their incubator stay with many, many weeks. I think we overuse our technology a little bit to day.
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