Picture of the Day: A mother’s love is the best kind of love

A mother’s love is the best kind of love.

The baby was born premature, and since there was no incubator nearby to take him to in order to stabilize his health condition, the mother used the Kangaroo mother care method, implemented by UNICEF.

The program encourages mothers to wrap their premature and underweight newborns to their chests using a ‘pouch.’  Snuggled against their mother’s skin, the babies’ body temperatures stabilize, their heart rates steady and they begin to breathe more easily.

Kangaroo Mother Care has been particularly successful in the Upper East and Central regions of Ghana, where babies who might have once died for want of an expensive incubator are now surviving.