Volunteers cuddle babies too sick or tiny to leave hospital; ‘a simple touch can be healing’ | Star Tribune
CHICAGO — A volunteer slips her arms into a gauzy yellow hospital gown and approaches a medical crib holding a tiny newborn hooked up to noisy machines. “OK,” she says, with a smile. “Baby time.” That means cuddle time in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital. Here, as… Read More »