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Nothing in this world can take the place of the mother. For an infant, the mother is the source of warmth and nutrition. Children are the future and so they need proper growth facilities physically and mentally. Children who born early and with low weight need extra care and attention than normal ones. Early born children have less chances of survival and have immunity issues. So, Kangaroo Mother Care technique is blessing for such babies. This technique allows mother to have close skin to skin interaction with baby and breastfeed more often. This study is designed to assess the level of knowledge and the acceptability of KMC among the mothers of preterm low birth weight babies. This study was done in the Civil Hospitals in Rohtak and Sonipat district of Haryana. A total sample of 150 mothers who are admitted in Hospitals is taken for this study. This study successfully concluded that Kangaroo mother care is more feasible, less expensive and preferred method over Conventional care method for increasing mortality rate and growth rate in developing countries.

warmth, nutrition, growth, future, birth weight