Kangaroo Care Awareness Day promotes skin-to-skin contact for babies

Kangaroo Care Awareness Day promotes skin-to-skin contact for babies
Kangaroo Care Awareness Day
A Houston-area mom started an awareness day ten years ago, after kangaroo care helped save her son's life
HOUSTON - Touch changes everything! That's the thought behind kangaroo care or skin-to-skin contact with a newborn baby.
A local mom started an awareness day ten years ago after kangaroo care helped save her son's life
Dr. Yamile Jackson relied on her own instincts to help keep her son Zachary alive 20 years ago. He was born prematurely. He was in Neo-Natal ICU and she was recovering from preeclampsia when catastrophic damage happened to the hospital in the Texas Medical Center during Tropical Storm Allison.

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