A short history  

The Kangaroo Care (KC) method was created by the Colombian paediatrician Edgar Rey in 1978, in response to inadequate and limited incubator care in the hospital where he worked. It was thereafter developed by H. Martines and L. Navarrete at the Instituto Materno Infantil in Bogota, Colombia.

Since then, research has made clear that KC is more than an alternative to incubator care. It has been proved to be effective for maintaining body temperature, breastfeeding and bonding irrespective of setting, weight, gestational age, and clinical conditions.