Two Barrington 'Mompreneurs' Create Shirt to Reap Benefits of Kangaroo Care
Hope Parish and Daniela Jensen develop the NuRoo Pocket - which allows skin-to-skin contact between mom and newborn.
Two Barrington moms have come up wth a new way for other mothers – and dads, too -- to snuggle up with their newborns. Hope Parish and Daniela Jensen have developed a wraparound polyester-spandex shirt for mom to wear to give skin-to-skin contact or “kangaroo care.” They’ve dubbed it the NuRoo Pocket – a $59.99 garment that you can buy online next week at babiesrus.com and Feb. 18 at 300 Babies ‘R’ Us stores across the country. “They wanted it exclusively for six months,” said Jensen, 33, a former Hasbro PlaySkool marketing executive who is the mother of five children ranging in age from 15 months to 13 years. “We went to them and made a pitch,” she said. “The best we could hope for, we were told, was a call-back. They wanted it at that …
