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HealthWatch: Baby Octopus Saves Preemies
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DALLAS, Texas (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- About four million babies are born in the U.S. every year, and one in ten, or about 400,000 American babies will need neonatal intensive care. Premature babies often need feeding and breathing tubes, which they tend ...


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Octopus For A Preemie: How Strangers Crocheting Octopuses Are Comforting Premature Babies And New Parents
HuffPost UK
“It has been wonderful to work with Octopus For A Preemie and we are so grateful for the donations,” she said. “The soothers help to comfort the babies in our unit and aid us in supporting worried parents.” Flatman said the organisation is heavily ...


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KFSN-TV​

Baby octopus saves preemies
KFSN-TV
Baby Anthony was born at 25 weeks, a micro-preemie weighing only one pound two ounces. (KFSN). KFSN. By Margot Kim. Monday, January 15, 2018 06:46PM. Baby Anthony was born at 25 weeks, a micro-preemie weighing only one pound two ounces. Now, he is up ...


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The Cairns Post​

Cairns Hospital introduces octopus scheme to help premmie babies
The Cairns Post
Cairns Hospital special care nursery nurse unit manager Jonelle Mayers said two-month-old Bailey Burgess was one of the first babies to received the handmade toy after the program, run by Octopus for a Preemie, expanded into the Far North last week ...


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Octopus dolls help comfort hospital's smallest patients
WSLS 10
ROANOKE, Va. - Small dolls that look like toys, but are actually therapy tools, are helping comfort one local hospital's smallest patients. Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital is a part of the "Octopus for a Preemie-US" program, in which volunteers ...


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Channel NewsAsia​

Creature comfort: The volunteers helping premature babies with octopus toys
Channel NewsAsia
The 43-year-old was inspired by articles online about the “Octopus for a Preemie” movement. It was borne out of the Danish Octo Project by a group of volunteers in Denmark which produces crocheted octopus toys for premature babies. The group says the ...

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