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Brief History of Kangaroo Mother Care
• 1979 - Dr Rey and Martinez started programme in Bogota, Colombia, in response to shortage of incubators and severe hospital infections.KMC colleagues should feel free to suggest expansions to this history! You are welcome to email me using the link at the bottom of the page.
• 1983 - UNICEF brought attention to programme, Spanish!
• 1985 - Number of visits from USA, UK and Scandinavia, first English report published in The Lancet by Whitelaw and Sleath, May 1985.
• 1986 onwards - Research in Europe and USA. Implementation widespread in Scandinavia and Germany. Early implementation in Mozambique and other African countries.
• 1991 - First review of research published by Gene Cranston Anderson.
• 1996 - First International Workshop, Trieste, Italy, hosted by Adreano Cattaneo and team. Noted over thirty different terms used, agreed to use KMC (Kangaroo Mother Care), defining the programme of skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding and early discharge. The term “K C” refers only to intervention “intrahospital maternal-infant skin-to-skin contact”.
• 1998 - First International Conference on Kangaroo Care, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, arranged by Susan Ludington-Hoe
• 1998 - Second International Workshop, Bogota, Colombia, arranged by Nathalie Charpak and team; focus on research and implementation.
• 2000 - Third International Workshop, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
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