Description of the Kangaroo Zak for healthy newborns
Description:
The Kangaroo Zak™ is the first and only product specifically made to facilitate the kangaroo position ensuring continuous, proper, safe, and prolongued skin-to-skin contact for healthy newborns.
The skin to skin contact has impact on the strengthening of the mother-child relationship, neurological development, thermal regulation, control and/or decrease of gastro esophageal reflux, improving of breathing and patterns of behavior, all supported by numerous scientific publications.
The Kangaroo Zak is a strapless band that wraps around the torso of the parent and ensures an adequate thermal environment maximizing the area of contact between the baby and the adult. It is simple yet effective. It is hypoallergenic and made from natural fibers, washable, non-deformable, affordable and can be used at different stages of growth of the baby or for different caregivers (father o mother), for its property multi-size, adaptable with its zipper. There are two sizes of the Kangaroo Zak: Size 1 adjusts to S/M/L; and Size 2 adjusts to XL/2XL/3XL.
The main benefits of the Kangaroo Zak are that it ensures the comfort of the parents who hold their babies, leaving their hands free for other tasks of daily routine and reducing the anxiety of the risk of accidental slippage of the baby, especially during sleep while hospitalized or at home (as practiced in many countries).
Sizes:
There are 2 sizes of the Kangaroo Zak, and each adjusts to three different sizes:
Size 1 fits S/M/L, and size 2 fits XL/2XL/3XL
Users:
Mothers and Fathers may use the Kangaroo Zak to hold their baby safely and comfortably. Kangaroo Zaks are also included in the emergency kit of hospitals in case of loss of power to incubators.
When to Use the Kangaroo Zak:
If the baby can be Kangarooed, s/he can use the Kangaroo Zak. The nurse will assess the size of the Kangaroo Zak. Dr. Jackson kangarooed an average of 5-6 hours a day. It is recommended that preemies are kangarooed for 6 months and healthy babies for the first 3 months of life.
How to use the Kangaroo Zak:
About the Designer:
Dr. Yamile Jackson, the inventor of the award-winner The Zaky, is also the designer of the Kangaroo Zak. Inspired on kangarooing her own son in 2001, Zachary, and doing years of research around the world in KMC, and using her PhD in ergonomics and human Factors, she designed the perfect product for high-technology NICUs.
Know the story behind the Kangaroo Zak:
Since the creation of KMC, there was the need to help mothers to hold their babies with the help of a support that keep the baby in the correct kangaroo position. For the designer (our company president) was very difficult to hold her baby for long periods of time (the arms get very tired) and the much needed rest/sleep was not encouraged for fear that the baby changes his/her position and may fall!!!
Dr. Jackson kangarooed her son in 2001 when he was born prematurely weighing less than 2 lbs. She also kangarooed him when the power to the equipment at her hosptial in Houston was shut-down due to the flood caused by Tropical Storm Allison. She later spent years researching what was available worldwide and following ergonomic principles, she designed the Kangaroo Zak to provide the best product possible to complement and work for the needs of parents in the USA.
She learned that several items are used in each culture around the world to provide boundaries to the baby and are comfortable for the one who is holding the baby, however, they are not suitable for the high-tech environments of the NICUs in the USA where the babies are "plugged" to many medical items.
The simplicity and non-gender specific characteristics of the Kangaroo Zak give an extra component for parents and caregivers that provides the tranquility of keeping the baby upright as strictly defined in the different manuals and publications of KMC worldwide. It is easy to handle the baby and place him/her in or out the chest as many times as necessary, and of course, the easy access to vital signs monitoring and stabilization, and even removal of the baby in the hospital setting.
The Kangaroo Zak (named also after Zachary) is the preferred gift to new parents in hospitals - it is time to develop the baby's brain and make him/her feel loved!!
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