NeoIPC Kangaroo Care toolkit
This toolkit, from the NeoIPC Consortium, helps neonatal units scale up and perform optimised Kangaroo Care, in line with the approach used in the NeoDeco study.Kangaroo Care manual
NeoDeco Kangaroo Care Procedure Manual, Version 2.0 (English)
Summary and table (English)
Résumé et tableau (Français)
Zusammenfassung und Tabelle (Deutsch)
Περίληψη και πίνακας (Ελληνικά)
Sommario e tabella (Italiano)
Resumen y tabla (Español)
Implementation support educational videos
Subtitles are available in English, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
To activate them, press on the CC icon in the lower right corner of the player and select your preferred language.
Implementing kangaroo care
The aim of this animated video is to introduce the concept of implementation science in healthcare and showcase an example of implementation support taking place in a NICU looking to increase kangaroo care.
Putting a baby in kangaroo care
The aim of this short film is to provide practical guidance on how to perform kangaroo care.
Kangaroo Care - Supplementary materials
Fernández-Medina, Isabel María et al., Consensus document for the kangaroo mother care method. Anales de pediatria (English Edition) vol. 101,3 (2024): 208-216. (English)
Fernández-Medina, Isabel María et al., Documento de consenso en el método madre canguro. Anales de pediatria (English Edition) vol. 101,3 (2024): 208-216. (Español)
World Health Organization, Kangaroo mother care: a clinical practice guide. Geneva; 2025. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. (English)
World Health Organization, Kangaroo mother care: implementation strategy for scale-up adaptable to different country contexts. Geneva; 2023. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (English)
Organisation mondiale de la Santé, Méthode « mère kangourou » : stratégie de mise en œuvre et d’intensification adaptable à différents contextes nationaux. Genève; 2024. (Français)
Darmstadt G, Kirkwood B, Gupta S et al. WHO Global Position Paper and Implementation Strategy on kangaroo mother care call for fundamental reorganisation of maternal–infant care. The Lancet, 2023; 401, 1751-1753. (English)
Gupta S, Darmstadt G, Kirkwood B et al. A clinical practice guide to transform care and save newborn lives with kangaroo mother care. The Lancet, 2025; 407, 7-9. (English)
Working Group on Developmental and Family-Centered Care from the Spanish Society of Neonatal Nursing (SEEN). Clinical practice guideline on Kangaroo Mother Care (Executive summary). (English)