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‘Roo way’ to care for baby

Forces nurse sings with Bon Jovi in Harry’s choir

- BY TOM BRYANT Head of Showbiz tom.bryant@mirror.co.uk @MirrorTom

SKIN-to-skin contact is essential to boost babies’ brains, says a study.

It recommends The Kangaroo Care method where mums hold naked or part-dressed tots against their skin - similar to how marsupials carry young in their pouch. It also cuts stress in mothers.

Dr Nancy Aaron Jones from Florida Atlantic University said: “Full-term infants and mothers likely benefit from extended Kangaroo Care use.”

Harry, Susan & Bon Jovi

A ROYAL Navy nurse badly injured in Afghanista­n has spoken of her joy at singing with Jon Bon Jovi in Prince Harry’s Invictus Games Choir.

Susan Warner, 61, has been in the choir for two years and first met Harry after the Invictus Games in Orlando in 2016. She competed in swimming events after suffering multiple fractures while serving in Afghanista­n in 2009.

She then caught up with Prince Harry again at London’s Abbey Road studios in February – where she walked the famous zebra crossing with both Jon and Harry.

Susan sang with rocker Jon as they re-recorded a special version of Bon Jovi single Unbroken with the full choir.

Susan, from Belfast, praised Harry’s

“humility” and said: “It was a poignant moment to be treasured.

“We hope the single will touch many hearts and be a light during this troubling time for so many people around the world. It just feels like it is so important.”

Harry tells Bon Jovi in the video for the song: “With military people, there’s a way of being able to talk about the scars of

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Susan with fellow singer

war in a positive way... they are stronger for it.” Unbroken is available to buy and stream now. All proceeds will go to the Invictus Games Foundation, of which Harry is patron, in support of the recovery of ill and wounded military personnel.

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