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Background: Premature infants can experience stress due to heat loss. Good temperature regulation is required to maintain a stable temperature in preterm infants. Environmental management strategies nurseries to maintain a stable temperature in premature babies is done with care development (developmental care). One of the actions of developmental care is the use of nesting Methodology: This study used a quasi-experimental design with a non-randomized design of pre-test and post-test with control group design. Respondents represented 44 premature infants were divided into 2 groups. The intervention group and control with 22 babies each. Nesting administered over 30 minutes, and carried out in the morning and afternoon. Instrument used observation sheet which containts the characteristics of the responden (gestasional age, infant weight, frequency of pulse,sex). The statistical test used Saphiro Wilk test, Wilcoxon alternative test. Bivariate test using Mann Whitney. Research result: Body temperature in the control group showed a p-value = 0.059, in the intervention group body temperature before and after nesting value of p = 0.000. This means that the results showed no significant difference in body temperature before and after nesting in the intervention group Conclusion : The use of nesting in premature babies is able to keep the baby-s body temperature still warm