redstate.com It is a sad reality that the more advanced technology becomes, the more disconnected we seem to become from one another. The most disheartening thing I have read about lately has been something called “Cuddle Therapy,” where people hire someone to hold them. Very sad that this is even a thing.
What is also a thing, and much more worthy in my mind: volunteering to hold premature or sick babies who receive extended care in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). For newborn babies, especially premature babies, human touch is critical in their ability to further develop, grow, and thrive. Dependent upon the community, there are not enough neonatal nurses to go around for these babies, especially if the parents live hours away (think rural areas), or is too ill to care for them. Sometimes, the child is a foster or has been abandoned.
In Idaho Falls, ID, a member of the community answered that need for cuddling for these little ones; a man named Larry does just that. He spends his Saturdays holding NICU babies at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center (EIRMC). He’s been doing it for a number of years, so by all indications he receives way more than the time and affection he gives.
The power of human touch, is the subject of this week’s Feel-Good Friday.
Thanks to Nate Eaton, editor-in-chief of East Idaho News, for this story.
One scientific publication points to the fact that touch is our very first human experience.
Touch is our first connection to the world, and long before we can interpret voices or facial expressions, our skin speaks the language of comfort, fear, hunger, calm. It is through touch that we first learn whether the world is warm or cold, safe or threatening, loving or absent. […]
Touch calms the brain, not as a metaphor, but as a measurable, observable fact. And in a world that is growing more digital, more isolated, and more skin-starved by the day, this truth matters more than ever.
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