KMC in the 24-hour period before discharge from facility
| Site | Any skin-to-skin care, n (%) | Hours of skin-to- skin care per day (mean, SD) | >8 hours of skin-to-skin care, per day, n (%) | Exclusive breastfeeding, n (%) | KMC (>8 hours of skin-to-skin care and exclusive breastfeeding), n (%) |
| Amhara, n=602 | 394 (65.4) | 14.9 (2.8) | 391 (65.0) | 384 (63.8) | 380 (63.1) |
| Oromia, n=307 | 205 (66.8) | 11.6 (4.0) | 174 (56.7) | 216 (70.4) | 167 (54.4) |
| SNNPR, n=130 | 116 (89.2) | 12.5 (4.0) | 110 (84.6) | 115 (88.5) | 106 (81.5) |
| Tigray, n=384 | 329 (85.7) | 13.4 (3.5) | 323 (84.1) | 333 (86.7) | 316 (82.3) |
| Haryana, n=746 | 631 (84.6) | 11.1 (4.7) | 484 (64.9) | 596 (79.9) | 451 (60.5) |
| Karnataka, n=665 | 565 (85.0) | 9.6 (4.4) | 398 (59.8) | 500 (75.0) | 355 (53.4) |
| Uttar Pradesh, n=852 | 790 (92.7) | 12.0 (7.9) | 464 (54.5) | 695 (81.6) | 449 (52.7) |
KMC, Kangaroo Mother Care; SNNPR, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region.