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Originally Posted by NetHorse
Why don't you have a shirt on, were you breast feeding your baby?  |
The evening prior we both broke down because she had been in the NICU for 7 days and we wanted desperately to bring her home so she would be out of that place. Hospitals kill lots of people and babies due to all the germs floating around. A nurse suggested we do skin to skin contact because it is stimulating to both parents and baby. It worked and within a few days of doing this several times a day she got so much stronger and was released 2 days later. Greys anatomy did a show about this recently where a baby was expected to die but a doctor took his shirt off and held the baby for a few days and saved her life. Yes I understand it was a scripted TV show but it was based on what really goes on in NICUs.