“…KMC was also found to increase infant growth (Bera et al, 2014;Lumbanraja, 2016), breast feeding (Conde-Agudelo & Díaz-Rossello, 2016; Luong, Nguyen, Thi, Carrara, & Bergman, 2016), mother-infant attachment (Boundy et al, 2016;Cho et al, 2016;Conde-Agudelo & Díaz-Rossello, 2016;Feldman, Rosenthal, & Eidelman, 2014), and infant neurodevelopment (Akbari et al, 2018;Charpak et al, 2017). Despite the strong evidence and establishment of KMC Centers of Excellence in many countries (Sarfo, 2018), significant barriers to implementation persist at all levels: organizations, clinical teams and families (Chan, Bergelson, Smith, Skotnes, & Wall, 2017).…”