BRINGING UP BABY - cuddling is being used at U.S. hospitals around the country to help premature newborns who cant go home yet. When nurses are swamped with other patients and parents cannot make it to the hospital, grandmas, empty-nesters, college students and other volunteers step in. They hold the babies, swaddle them, sing and coo to them, rock them, and treat them as if they were their own. You can see them calm, can see their heart rate drop and their little brows relax, said 74-year-old Frank Dertz at the Chicago hospital. Theyre fighting so hard and theyre undergoing all this medical drama and trauma. I love this job, helping these tiny little creatures, that makes me feel good too. Its quite a blessing for me, I get more out of it than the babies, I think, Dertz said. abcnews.go/blogs/headlines/2014/03/cuddling-babies-hospital-volunteers-show-the-power-of-human-touch/
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 07:16:03 +0000
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