{"id":299936,"date":"2023-10-11T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299936"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:12:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T17:12:33","slug":"octopus-teddies-save-preemies-amazing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/octopus-teddies-save-preemies-amazing\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Octopus teddies’ are saving the lives of preemies in an amazing way"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Right to Life UK<\/a>) A mum of a premature baby has explained<\/a>\u00a0that octopus teddies are being used to help distract babies born prematurely from tugging on their monitoring equipment.<\/p>\n

Premature babies often need hospital treatment, sometimes for a long time, before they are able to go home with their parents. This means they often have a lot of wires monitoring their condition, a feeding tube and other bits of medical equipment, and it\u2019s simply too much temptation for these little fighters to leave it all alone.<\/p>\n

Things were no different for baby Nahla. Taking to Instagram, her mum\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0\u201cI wish I had known about these when (daughter) Nahla was taken to NICU straight after birth\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmall octopuses and jellyfish are knitted by groups such as Octopuses for a Preemie in such a way that the tentacles feel like an umbilical cord. The octopuses are placed in incubators or cots with preterm bubs [babies], allowing them to grab onto the tentacles\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile (in utero), bubs grab their cord, which this teddy is designed to mimic. As a result, bubs will leave their cords, monitoring lines and wires alone because they\u2019re too busy holding the tentacles.\u201d<\/p>\n