You might have heard me or my Mom and Dad talk about "Kangaroo Time." Well, I love 'Roo time. Kangaroo Care was invented in Bogota, Columbia in the late 1970's. The NICU there was overflowing with babies, and the chief doctor, Dr. Edgar Rey Sanabria, hit on the idea of mimicking kangaroos. Kangaroos are born premature (like I was) and their babies immediately crawl up into their mothers pouch to stay warm and safe. Dr. Sanabria realized the same could work for people and encouraged the mothers in his NICU to act as incubators by holding their babies skin-to-skin. It turns out, moms are better at regulating temperature and being more soft and cuddly than the best modern technology, and the outcomes are fantastic.
Dad, on the other hand, feels like a carpet, tastes like a leather shoe, and has rock hard pecs. I like it anyway.
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