Bare-chest cuddle that saves early born babies

Victor Otieno and his wife Glorious Sammy, who decided not to put their twin's in the nursery and instead had a Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) that enables the kid get warmth from the parent to enable him grow. This process enables the kid to have a skin to skin contact with the parent and is always recommended for kids born before their gestation time (premature) 13-6-2018. [Phillip Orwa, Standard]

Hope Mwikali weighed less than a kilogramme at birth. Her mother, Winfred Nzisa, was even scared of what she saw in the delivery room at Pumwani Hospital on March 29 last year: a baby that could easily fit into an adult’s palm.

Hope, her mother said, had come three months before the due date. But seeing baby Hope now, one would not believe she once weighed slightly more than a loaf of bread at 700g. The little girl is now 15 months-old and weighs 6.3kg.