Relationship between positioning of premature infants in Kangaroo Mother Care and early neuromotor development.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between prone and lateral positioning of preterm infants in Kangaroo Mother Care and early neuromotor development.

Methods: Eighty preterm infants born at Instituto Materno-Infantil de Pernambuco, Brazil, admitted to the Kangaroo Mother Care Unit between July and October 2004 were divided into two groups. Forty infants were placed in prone position (PP), while the remaining 40 children were kept in lateral decubitus (LD).