Announcing Partnership with Kangaroo Mother Care Support Shirt
To close out a successful World Breastfeeding Week, Maternova is happy to announce our new partnership with Kangaroo Mother Care Support Shirt! The KMC support shirt is a stretchy tube shirt that promotes bonding and breastfeeding through prolonged skin-to-skin contact between the parent and infant. The stretchy cotton-spandex allows for the baby to be held securely against the parent without constriction. Friendly illustrations that present instructions for use are printed on the fabric, and the shirt can be used with a biliblanket for jaundice treatment.
Larrea Young, creator of the wrap, shared a positive experience with her product, “I was in tears when the mom in the photos used it, because she told me that her little boy had been screaming all day because he was separated from her in a swaddle so that he could use the bili light, but when she put him on her chest in the wrap, he immediately quieted down and just snuggled her. It felt incredibly good to have helped a new family, even if it was in such a small way.”
The KMC support shirt differs from products already on the market, firstly because it is not a wrap. The shirt has no buttons, buckles, zippers, velcro or ties. This makes skin-to-skin contact easier to achieve for a mother and her newborn child, without having to worry about application. The KMC support shirt already has a stretchy material, but there are different sizes available, with room to expand for more sizes. There are also designs in the works for dads who want to embrace the benefits of KMC. WHO calls Kangaroo Support Mother Care Shirt “a powerful, easy-to-use method to promote the health and well-being of infants born preterm as well as full-term.”
The KMC support shirt is made in the USA. The inks used to print the designs have been 3rd party tested to ensure they do not include any harmful chemicals and are safe for use in infant products. The shirt has a warning label on the back, as well as in the user manual and in the warning sheet that comes with each order, reminding parents not to fall asleep while holding the baby, to always support the baby from underneath, make sure the baby’s face is uncovered and the baby is able to breathe normally and to always monitor the baby.
Maternova is proud to bring to you a product which supports exclusive breastfeeding when possible. The beautiful design of Kangaroo Mother Care Support Shirt is not only appealing to the eye, but provides real benefits to mother and child via skin-to-skin contact. The KMC support shirt has the ability to empower parents as well as encourage them to educate others about the practice. If you are interested in pre-ordering, please contact orders@maternova.net.Leave a comment
Comments will be approved before showing up.
Also in The Maternova Blog
Pumani bubble CPAP
The Pumani bubble CPAP was engineered by a team at Rice University in Texas, working in collaboration with clinicians in Malawi. A range of specific design considerations made the Pumani especially appropriate for low-resource settings so that parts are easy to replace.
The MaternaWell Tray for PPH estimation now appears in key obstetric guidelines
A 'tray' is now mentioned in the FIGO/WHO/ICM Consolidated Postpartum Hemorrhage Guidelines published by in 2025, expanding the type of monitoring device from drape to drape or tray.
Is it ethical to separate mother and infant just after birth?
Immediate skin to skin care means less than ten minutes after the infant takes its first breath, the infant, naked except for a diaper, spends at least one hour on the mother’s chest, against her skin. It is recommended that preterm and low birth weight kangaroo care involve prolonging contact beyond the first hour for at least 8 hours per day or as long as possible (up to 24 hours) per day
