Laerdal Global Health is a not-for-profit company dedicated to helping save the lives of mothers and newborns, through collaborative design processes and partnerships with leading global health organizations. Our goal is to help save 400,000 more lives per year by 2020. Helping Babies Grow A family of training and therapy products aiming to help save lives of newborns, especially low birth weight babies through breastfeeding and skin-to-skin. Helping Babies Grow.indd 1

Helping Babies Grow Prematurity is the major cause of newborn death and disability globally. Each year, preterm complications account for over 1 million deaths, often from preventable causes. Skin-to-skin, proper feeding and infection prevention, also known as Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC), can avert up to 450,000 preterm deaths each year by 2015 if nearuniversal coverage is achieved (Lancet, 2013). A recent Lancet article reports that scaling up of breastfeeding to a near universal level could prevent 823,000 deaths annually. WHO and UNICEF endorse KMC and recommend breast milk cup feeding to newborns...