Kangaroo care on the postnatal ward.

Three years ago, a midwife at Pembury Hospital in Kent suggested introducing kangaroo care for pre-term babies on the postnatal ward. Sarah Gregson, consultant midwife at the Trust, was interested in the idea, but wondered why it wasn’t already in routine use on postnatal wards. ‘Even though I knew kangaroo care had been done in the developing world and in the special care baby unit, I thought there must be a reason why it’s not being done on the general wards,’ she says. ‘But when I looked in the literature, I found that no work had been done.’