Interventional stimulation of the preterm infant is one of Neonatology’s new frontiers.  The newborn is emerging as a distinct individual with feelings and responses and the significance of handling a human being in the process of developing is just being fully realized.  The concept of `nature and nurture’ is well known.  The effects of nature are dependent on the quality of the `nurture’ provided during development and outcome of the nurture is dependent on the `nature’ of the organism (1).

KMC is not simply the “poor man’s” alternative.  They are physiologically sound and emotionally appropriate interventions to the arena where the care for the fragile neonate is provided. These are not simply medical interventions, but the introduction of a set of human values, backed by scientific knowledge into the highly technical routine care of the youngest of our species.