Miracle: "Kangaroo Care Method" Saves Preemie

A family in Australia is rejoicing thanks to a treatment known coincidentally as the "Kangaroo Care Method."

Kate Ogg gave birth to premature twins, only to be told that her son, Jamie, had no vital signs.

Instead of giving up, she put the baby in position against her chest and, miraculously, he started stirring minutes later and, after two hours, he opened his eyes.

Five months later, both twins are doing fine, their parents say.

CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth told the story of the Miracle Down Under on "The Early Show on Saturday Morning":

Also on "The Early Show on Saturday Morning," Dr. Karen Hendricks Munoz, Chief of Neonatology at New York University Medical Center. explained to co-anchor Rebecca Jarvis how the "Kangaroo Care Method" works:

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Mom2aMicroPreemie says:: My daughter was born 14 weeeks premature at 26 weeks gestation, weighed 1 pound 9 ounces and was 12 inches long. We enjoyed Kangaroo Care starting at 7 days old, even when she was on the CPAP machine, and she layed on my chest for 8 hours a day (4 in the morning and 4 in the evening) for the 75 days she was in the NICU. She went home at 4 pounds 10 ounces, 10 weeks old, and is now a happy healthy 20 month old toddler! Kangaroo Care works! This is footage of her journey in the NICU, with pictures of us kangarooing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrchkZZa4pw; reply

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nkovalyak says:: My name is Nicole I am a NICU RN and I have invented a developmental positioning aide that re-creates "kangaroo care" for NICU babies in the incubator when parents are not there or the baby is too sick to get out of bed. I love this story and it hit home with my passion and proof that the world's smallest patients need this type of care. Thank you for running this story! I will be at the National Association of Neonatal Nurses convention in September with my company Neonatal Loving Kare and my product "Nurture Rest" as well as my other products for NICU babies. Thanks again!; reply

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amerilatino says:

Doctors in general, and especially American doctors, often fall into the delusion that 12 years of medicine teaches them all there is to know about the purpose and miracle of life and disclaims their own infallibility, so much so that when when other, more holistic alternatives to unreliable medical treatments come to the forefront, they respond with a frenzy of opposition until the pharmaceutical industry researches these treatments, condenses them into colored pills and offers the same doctors paid vacations to Cancun to push them to their patients. Let's see how they latch onto this one.


cmoneynyc replies:: linkicon reporticon emailicon; Motherhood is amazing and so is this beautiful story but

boy, what a generalization!I am a physician, and most doctors that I know (though there are an ignorant few)do not feel these "delusions" that you speak of and generally do not discount holistic approaches or feel like they can explain everything there is to know about life. Most of us have seen with our own eyes what seem to be miracles. In fact,I have found that many of those who follow the holostic approach, discount valid western medicine. Doctors try to protect patients from frauds in the guise of holistic medicine of which there are many. Nowadays doctors are busy trying to pay $150,000 debts; Cancun vacations may have happened 25 years ago but are long gone and considered unethical by the medical community. Stop viewing medicine with such a 1 sided approach.One day you may need a doctor who knows western medicine to save your life. You are doing the same thing that you claim doctors do by invalidating one approach to medicine. Get over yourself. Yoga and anger management is what the doctor has ordered.

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G H M says:: wonderful
This is the type of story's we need

we do not want to be force fed stupid poitics; reply

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ffoulkes-2009 says:: That baby boy is gonna be something else! Way to go to the Mom.; reply