• 3 days ago
Any baby cuddle volunteers?
Transcript
00:00There's nothing better than a baby that's sitting on your chest, right?
00:04Oh, it's me heart.
00:07♪♪
00:16I heard that they were just offering employees to be cobblers,
00:20and I thought, what is better than a baby,
00:23you know, on your chest and hanging out?
00:26♪♪
00:34There are many studies that show that human contact for babies,
00:37holding with babies, helps with that brain growth
00:39and helps with their overall development,
00:42specifically their ability to maintain all of their vitals
00:47so that they can learn to feed and grow.
00:50I have a little baby in the next pod over,
00:54and she's been growing and getting little chubbier cheeks,
00:58and so that's really fun to see how that they improve and grow.
01:04♪♪
01:11A lot of parents are unable to be here due to work
01:14or other children at home,
01:16or maybe they live far away and can't get here very often,
01:20so it's great to have that human contact.
01:23♪♪
01:33They go through a developmental training,
01:35learning how to hold a baby appropriately,
01:37what to do if baby starts to fuss
01:39or have desaturations of oxygen,
01:43and learning what to do when baby is showing us signs
01:47that they're stressed out.
01:48There's an animal configuration for each baby,
01:52and each one tells us what the baby can handle.
01:56But we also watch the monitors.
01:58Each monitor has their heart rate
02:01and how often, how many breaths they take per minute,
02:06and then their oxygen rate.
02:08♪♪
02:14I for sure get more out of this than the babies do.
02:19This is just so helpful for just mind and body, you know?
02:24It's two hours of you forget
02:26what's stressing you out in your life, right?
02:29It's so rewarding, so rewarding.
02:32Literally every baby that we send home
02:36has a better life or even a chance at a life
02:38that they would not have had at all
02:40had they not been in our NICU,
02:42and that is so fulfilling for our staff to know
02:44that we really are helping with miracles every day.
02:48If I couldn't be here, I would probably be a mess, so...
02:53And just to know somebody could be here for him.