BackgroundKangaroo Care allows newborns to share skin-to-skin contact, also called Kangaroo care, with parents, warmed by conductive and radiant heat transfer, enhances the mother's birth experience. KC has demonstrated long-term health benefits for both infant and parent during hospitalization. AimIdentify parents’ opinions about the Kangaroo Care, its benefits to the infant and themselves and the reasons to change KC to skin-to-skin contact holding during the hospitalization. DesignObservational, exploratory, and descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The textual content of interviews conducted with 21 parents was subjected to lexicographical textual (descending hierarchical classification and similarity analysis) with IRaMuTeQ. Results809 segments were analysed in the descending hierarchical classification, retaining 82.5% of the total for the creation of four classes. The similarity analysis of the words representing the parental opinion about KC led to three central cores, represented by the words: nurse, holding, benefit. ConclusionA maioria dos pais revelou ter algum conhecimento sobre o KC, que foi reforçada pela informação transmitida oralmente e através de exposição de posters durante o internamento. Contudo, verificou-se que esta não foi suficiente para a manutenção do KC. Parents cite the presence of positive support and reassurance received by the nurses as important for them to continue KC, although there were some differences identified between mothers and fathers.