12 weeks premature baby can’t even lift their arm. Nurses placed the arm over the twin. Still a nice story though,.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
