My son was premature. One of the first things they had us do was skin to skin contact, for hours a day.
You could see him improve in the charts during and immediately afterwards. A kid who was barely alive at 24 weeks is now a fully functional toddler.
Physical contact is a lifesaver.
This is also true for all babies not just premies. Strollers are one of the worst inventions for child development.
is this actually real or just a made up Facebook story?
Snopes says it’s true.
Fuck yeah. I’m so happy to see this once this kind of story is real
Fascinating read, thanks!
My brain immediately dismissed it because it sounds like socials clickbait. I can hear it with that annoying TikYok voice…
“This person or thing somewhere did or endured a thing that was so sad all hope was lost. But then the climax came and something unbelievable and happy happened. Now you got a squirt of dopamine and they all lived happily ever after. React and follow for more dopamine.”
If it’s real, the OP has spent way too long on socials, they’re talking like a post bot.
I am old enough to remember when this happened. Sometimes all you need is a hug.
Same. Hello, fellow old fart.
Story could be true, but the “common practice” could be overstated.
What if I am looking for this image?
Then, and only then, is it deleted.
I’m not looking for it so I can see it perfectly clear.
12 weeks premature baby can’t even lift their arm. Nurses placed the arm over the twin. Still a nice story though,.
I think the incubator needs a bit of recognition here too. Our son was in a UV one which helped him break down the jaundice. He wore a tiny little eye mask.
Which of the 2 incubators are you refering to? The one identical to the other one?
Agreed. If more people grasped the real reason why centaurs don’t exist, the world’d be a better place. 🤷🏼♂️
Why don’t they have all babies share a bed then? I know mixing up would be a problem, but they mix them up all the time, and this would save their lives.
Here (NZ) the generally accepted protocol is immediately after (a natural) birth that the baby is given to the mother for “skin on skin” time. Only broken briefly to weigh and examine baby.
The idea is to keep baby as close to mum as possible. Similar protocol for multiple births is to keep everyone as close as possible.
Believe In the land of the free it’s an additional cost of childbirth bill.
Yeah, I’ve seen pictures of invoices with crap like that on it.
When my wife had a c-section, skin-to-skin became my job as she recovered.
Were you in the theatre during the op or did baby get passed out of the theatre to you?
Mine was brought to me after the c-sec. I actually helped weigh the baby. This was in Estonia though. I don’t know if they would’ve let me in the OR if I’d asked, but I didn’t really want to. In fact I’d been awake for over 24 hours after a night of sleeping 2 or 3 hours (water broke at like 4 or 5 AM and c-sec happened about 24 hours later), so I didn’t even want to be in the hospital at that point anymore lol… ex threatened divorce because I fell asleep for a few minutes a couple of times while she was in labor. Between like 2 or 3 AM. I didn’t love her enough apparently.
They had me suit up and let me in as soon as my wife was opened up and stabilized, and I was able to sit by her head while the surgeon and everyone went to work.
Baby came out, I cut the cord, got to hold her for a minute, then they got the measurements, all that routine stuff while my wife got put back together.
Baby got cleaned up and then I got to do the skin-to-skin holding in a post-op room once everyone agreed that the both of them were out of the woods medically.
A sharpie to the forehead would solve the mixup issue.
Babies are too squishy. You’d want to use an airbrush, or at least invent some kind of ‘bluntie’.
Zip tie a punch card to their ankle
I would just pop rivet a name tag on each of their foreheads… Solves all the issues
Pop rivets tear through soft material, so again, until their skull starts to harden at around six to nine months, that’s not a reliable way to distinguish twins. Besides, you only really need to rivet one of them, and can identify the other by the lack of rivet.
What about the old corpo Giftmas tradition of stapling antlers to mice’s heads? That might work?
Oh Lumpy!
Well that would certainly be a problem if the baby was premature and needed to be put back in the oven for a while.
There’s not enough data on if it helps, and co-bedding risks mixing up feeding, medications, treatments, etc.
The reason why people suspect it MIGHT help with multiple birth babies is that it might feel familiar to when they were inside.
There’s not enough ability to research it. You’re taking big risks that require getting permission from a separate family, with only a guess that it might do something useful.
There’s not even much in the way of data as to why it worked in this case, or others. But afaik, it’s only ever been tried in multiple births, and only ones that are in distress. That’s why this was even tried; an effort to save a struggling preemie.
Not that research is impossible, but the barrier is a big one.
I’ve been there, doctors will do just about any thing if there’s a chance it’ll help more than it’ll harm. I came very close to dying in the ICU once and I woke up with all sorts of weird stuff going on, like purple pee from getting NUKED with one of the B vitamins. When it’s life or death medicine goes from a science to more of an art
Makes sense to me that she was losing the will to live because she lost contact with her other half before it was time.
Sometime we just need to be reminded that we’re not alone.
I’m not crying, you’re crying
Yes, and fuck you for pointing that out. Excuse me while I try to identify this stain on the celling.
They look like they grew up to be Slytherins.
Read another book!
Probably coincidence.
