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Almost every week for the past five years, Jeff and Terry Stadler have spent their Saturdays volunteering to cuddle babies. In the neonatal intensive care unit at Ochsner Medical Center in Old ...

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)- Wanted: baby cuddlers. At UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, volunteers can sign up to comfort tiny babies who need time in the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU.

November and December are often thought of as the season of giving, but that doesn't always mean giving financially. For babies at Bryan Health East Campus, the gift of time can be just what they need ...

No one seems to know why it’s taken more than 25 years for a man to join the ranks of volunteer baby cuddlers who give love to some of Evanston Hospital’s youngest patients. But with a quick smile and ...

TUCSON, Ariz. — Baby cuddlers are an important part of the process in nursing premature babies to health. The cuddler program at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson says cuddlers are available ...

The hospital announced this week it is expanding its volunteer program in the neonatal intensive care unit, adding two new shifts of "baby cuddlers." The cuddlers assist with several tasks around the ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- Carl Magnussen is a retiree and grandfather with a lot of love to give. "My grandson is a year old and I love holding him, but he lives in Nashville," Magnussen said. Enter the ...

Patricia Schery loves coming to the rescue. When Schery walked into the newborn nursery at Stony Brook University Hospital one recent morning, nurse Daria Cwalinska was visibly relieved. Cwalinska was ...

Bexar County is seeing more babies born with withdrawal symptoms related to their mothers' opioid addictions. One way hospitals help these babies overcome these often painful symptoms during their ...

WEYMOUTH, Mass. — The buzzing and beeping of technology inside the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) help care for the tiniest of patients. Now, a local hospital is showing how the power of human ...

Whatever the case, Bruce Erickson, a longtime volunteer baby cuddler (yes, there is such a thing), is happy to get comfortable in a cozy chair and hold his precious cargo for as long as possible, ...