Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital launches no baby unhugged program
The Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital launched their new no baby unhugged program on Monday.
The program connects vulnerable babies with volunteer huggers who provide the skin to skin contact babies need while their parents can’t be with them.
“When I was in Edmonton doing my training we noticed there was a baby in N.I.C.U., very, very sick, and we see every time the mom comes and holds the baby, the baby is doing awesome so we kind of observe that,” said Dr. Sibasis Daspal, divisional head of the N.I.C.U.
“It’s not just in the vital signs, the baby grows well, they sleep better and overall we’ve seen they have a really good improvement in terms of their neurocognitive outcome. So we’ve seen a great benefit in doing these things, we always wanted to do that and now we have the opportunity thanks to Huggies.”