Calling all cuddlers! As previously written about here and in the most recent Stanford Medicine Newsletter, volunteers Pat Rice and Claire Fitzgerald have been holding and soothing infants at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford for 16 years, providing comfort both to the tiny patients and their parents. Rice and Fitzgerald, Ronald Cohen, MD, and sweet babies were featured on ABC's World News with Diane Sawyer in the segment above.
Previously: Paying kindness forward through infant-cuddling, “I opened the doors:” A look back at two special babies and Neonatologist celebrates 50 years of preemie care
