CHICAGO — A volunteer slips her arms into a gauzy yellow hospital gown and approaches a medical crib holding a tiny newborn hooked up to noisy machines. “OK,” she says, with a smile. “Baby time.” That ...

Even before the pandemic took hold in 2020, Americans drifted away from their social circles, dedicating more and more time to solitary activities. This shift has deepened feelings of social isolation ...

BOSTON — Gloria Cerullo spends hours each month talking to newborns about what they might study in college. She runs through the alphabet — A is for architect, B is for biologist. “You literally feel ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Hospitals are adding a new team ...

A volunteer slips her arms into a gauzy yellow hospital gown and approaches a medical crib holding a tiny newborn hooked up to noisy machines. "OK," she says, with a smile. "Baby time." That means ...

ESMONT, Va. -- At the Caromont goat cheese farm in southern Virginia, this is the time of year when baby goats run wild, and the handful of employees are run ragged. About a hundred goats were born ...

Sue Moses has yet to become a grandmother. But every Friday she is a surrogate one to some 60 prematurely born babies in intensive care units at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in Palo ...

Cuddling babies is an experience that many love. But for some babies, cuddling could mean life or death. Babies born addicted to heroin are some of the most vulnerable newborns. And cuddling is an ...

NEW HYDE PARK, New York (WABC) -- Cohen Children's Medical Center has a new volunteer gig in their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Long Island Community Journalist Alex Ciccarone got to meet the ...

Volunteers at Boston Medical Center are helping babies who were exposed to drugs while in the womb heal faster with the power of human touch. The volunteer cuddlers are part of the hospital’s CALM ...

Dorothy Leroux, who spends every Tuesday as a “volunteer cuddler” at the Beta Center nursery in Orlando, sums up why she likes working with infants: “They like to be held, and I like to hold them.” ...

Santa Barbara County animal shelters are seeing an influx in kittens and are in need of kitten cuddlers. Officials with the Santa Barbara County Animal Services are hoping people can come and spend ...