Delivering the standard of care to the NICU’s most fragile infants.
Skincubator is a wearable medical device designed to enable immediate, prolonged skin-to-skin care for babies under 2000 g, from the day of birth.
The evidence is clear.
The infrastructure is missing.
Recommended: WHO, for preterm and low-birth-weight infants.1 Received: babies under 32 weeks in most units, in the first 7–14 days of life.2,3 Skincubator is designed for infants under 2000 g, including under 1000 g.
Because the NICU is built around the incubator. Every device, protocol and workflow assumes a baby lying in the incubator. None is designed for a baby on a parent.
Five tasks it takes to hold
a fragile baby in prolonged
skin-to-skin care.
No product on the market does more than one. Skincubator’s four subsystems are designed to solve all five at once, developed over four years with NICU nurses, neonatologists and families.
One wearable device,
built for hours on a parent’s chest.
A wearable medical device designed to keep the baby secure, warm, and visible on the parent’s chest, so skin-to-skin care can begin in the first hours of life and continue for hours at a time.
“It gave me a meditative way to step back into pregnancy, to allow a more gradual, less traumatic separation.”
Designed with NICU nurses and neonatologists to fit the way your unit works. See how Skincubator supports your team, your patients, and your protocols.
You are central to your baby’s development. Learn how skin-to-skin supports your baby, and how Skincubator is designed to help you hold them for as long as you can.
Four years of external validation
Selected, mentored and funded by leading programs in pediatric devices, women’s health and neonatal research.
See Skincubator in action.
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References +
1. World Health Organization. Recommendations for care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant, 2022.
2. Travis KE, Lazarus MF, Scala M, et al. Skin-to-skin holding in relation to white matter microstructure in infants born preterm. Neurology, 2025;105(8):e214138. Stanford, 86 infants under 32 weeks: an average of 24 minutes of skin-to-skin a day. doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000214138
3. Inpatient skin-to-skin care predicts 12-month neurodevelopmental outcomes in very preterm infants. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2024. Stanford, level IV NICU: families averaged about 17 minutes a day. PMC11514444
4. Karlsson V, et al. The Journal of Pediatrics, 2012. Transepidermal water loss in preterm infants during skin-to-skin care.