37 the benefits of KMC will improve the conviction in KMC as the best method of care.The family can identify a surrogate who can start KMC immediately if the mother is unable to provide continuous and prolonged KMC. The doctors and nurses providing immediate KMC need special skills to transfer a sick baby to the position, provide respiratory support like ventilation and oxygen, and monitor the sick baby in the KMC position. The small, sick baby may be taken to the NICU in KMC position. Some hospitals have converted the NICU to Mother-NICU (M-NICU), where an adult bed is placed in the NICU, and the mother and her sick newborn baby are cared for together to facilitate immediate and continuous KMC. Immediate KMC is a newWHO recommendation, and hospitals are currently in transition to follow this recommendation. Start KMC immediately after birth, even if the baby is not stable.
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