For the Nepalese, learning from the kangaroos on how to nurse newborn babies is paying oft. in reducing the infant mortality rate. Mothers are now taught to look after the,ir young ones, especially thosborn wIth low blrth-welght, m a manner sImilar to the kangaroo style of rearing their young 'roos'. Kangaroo nursmg mcludes botll the mother and the baby wrapped together with tIle baby in constant skin contact with tIle mother which will provide it with warmth an security.
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