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Miracles Happen
Some things just can't be explained by science:
Pronounced dead, revived by mom's hug: 'Miracle baby' turning 2
Shortly after Jamie and Emily were born prematurely at 27 weeks on March 25, 2010, doctors told Ogg and her husband David that Jamie had died. Nurses placed his limp body across his mother’s bare chest so she could say goodbye.
Quote:But after five minutes, Jamie began to move. The baby’s doctor told the Oggs his movements were reflexive and not a sign of life. But as his mother continued cuddling him, Jamie opened his eyes. Kate put some breast milk on her finger, and he eagerly accepted it. Their tiny baby grew stronger and stronger in his mother’s arms, and their final goodbye turned into a hello.
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RE: Miracles Happen
Or the baby wasn't actually dead.
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RE: Miracles Happen
(05-09-2014 02:49 PM)Smaug Wrote: Or the baby wasn't actually dead.
It was dead according to science.
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RE: Miracles Happen
It was dead according to a doctor. One doctor <> science.
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RE: Miracles Happen
(05-09-2014 02:55 PM)EverRespect Wrote: (05-09-2014 02:49 PM)Smaug Wrote: Or the baby wasn't actually dead.
It was dead according to science.
lol
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RE: Miracles Happen
(05-09-2014 02:57 PM)NIU007 Wrote: It was dead according to a doctor. One doctor <> science.
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RE: Miracles Happen
ER, did you read your own story? It pretty much describes the science behind what happened!
Quote:While the Oggs have been enjoying their three healthy children, the story of Jamie’s remarkable birth has helped publicize the growing body of research behind kangaroo care.
It's not a miracle cure. Nurse researcher Susan Ludington pioneered kangaroo care in the United States, and she cautions: “It does not resurrect the dead.” Ludington, a professor of pediatric nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, speculates that Jamie might have had an ineffective heart beat that was difficult to detect.
What she’d like to think happened, Ludington says, is that skin-to-skin contact with his parents made him more alert. In 2005, she says, researchers identified a special set of nerves in babies that are “exceedingly sensitive” to pleasant human touch.
Skin-to-skin contact with their mothers releases oxytocin, the so-called “cuddle hormone,” which affects multiple areas of newborns’ brains, Ludington says. The hormone makes their heart beat and breathing become more regular.
Kangaroo care can also help minimize pain in preterm and full-term babies. Celeste Johnston, director of research at the McGill University School of Nursing in Montreal, has investigated its use in babies born as early as 28 weeks’ gestation.
In Johnston’s studies now, all babies are held skin-to-skin with their mothers before undergoing a procedure such as a heel stick. “I can’t do control groups (with no skin-to-skin contact) anymore,” she says, “because I don’t think it’s ethical.”
The length of time moms hold babies before procedures doesn’t seem to matter, says Johnston, who’s found even 15 minutes of skin-to-skin contact effectively minimizes pain.
“The evidence is really pretty overwhelming about how good it is for term and preterm babies,” nursing researcher Diane Spatz says of kangaroo care, which she prefers to call skin-to-skin. “It’s not like we need more research… but we have to get people to actually do it.”
(This post was last modified: 05-09-2014 03:03 PM by Redwingtom.)
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