Weight gain in newborns submitted to skin-to-skin contact

ABSTRACT Purpose: to compare the weight gain among newborns submitted to the kangaroo method and those not submitted to it, and to analyze the factors that may influence this gain: length of hospital stay, gestational age, corrected gestational age, birth weight, weight on the first day of follow-u...

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Main Authors: Ana Karine da Costa Monteiro Souza, Ana Caroline Mendes Tavares, Daiany Gabriela de Lima Carvalho, Viviane Castro de Araújo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEFAC Saúde e Educação
Series:Revista CEFAC
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-18462018000100053&lng=en&tlng=en