In May 2009, at 26 weeks and 6 days into my pregnancy, I went to the hospital at 3 in the morning, fairly certain I was being a neurotic first time mother.

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More than a million babies each year are born too early (preterm)–and without access to the kind of health care that could save their lives.

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When our Hanoi team at Alive & Thrive, an infant nutrition project, produced two TV spots to promote exclusive breastfeeding for Vietnamese babies, the head of a U.S. non-profit called MOMS Orange Country took notice.

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Four in 10 of the 186 million pregnancies that occur in developing countries each year are unplanned, and many of them occur within a short interval of a previous birth.

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There is one woman in the country that could be called the “Kangaroo Care Champion.” Brazil’s own Dr. Zeni Carvalho Lamy has engaged in long-term research on this type of care, which demonstrates the extraordinary benefits for newborns—and their parents.

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