The Effect of Kangaroo Mother Care Method toward Weight Gain and Length of Stay among Low Birth Weight Baby

Abstract

<span lang="EN-US">Infant mortality needs to get serious attention. Special efforts are relatively easy and inexpensive in the handling and care is through treatment methods can improve the stability of</span><span lang="IN">Kangaroo Mother Care</span><span lang="IN">(</span><span lang="EN-US">KMC</span><span lang="IN">)</span><span lang="EN-US"> for babies and breastfeeding</span><span lang="IN">.</span><span lang="IN">The effort hopefully will</span><span lang="EN-US"> contribute to weight gain which take effect on the duration of treatment</span><span lang="IN">.</span><span lang="EN-US"> The study design </span><span lang="IN">was </span><span lang="EN-US">Quasi Experiment with Prepost one group design. Samples were mothers with a history of low birth weight deliveries, with sample selection technique in consecutive sampling and sample number 36 babies. The samples criteria were infants birth weight between 1,000-2,100 gr, weight of infant when KMC was started between 900-2,100 gr, weight of infants post KMC were<br /> 1,300-2,500 gr, babies born with premature or small period of pregnancy. KMC method has the potential to improve the Weight on Low Birth Weight (LBW)</span><span lang="IN">.</span><span lang="IN">D</span><span lang="EN-US">uration of KMC has no effect on weight gain but can accelerate the length of LBW in hospital. The longer do KMC, the shorter duration of hospital LBW in hospital. LBW </span><span lang="IN">should be treated </span><span lang="EN-US">KMC to accelerate weight gain and reducing the length of hospitalization. </span>