Human touch and affection is actually used in medicine in the U.S. and saved the life of a premature baby in 1995. When Worchester, MA father Paul Jackson’s twins were born in at UMass Memorial they were 12 weeks premature and weighed just 2 pounds.
“The nurses in the NICU were very honest and they told me up front things looked pretty good now but the next 42 to 78 hours things could turn very quickly,” Jackson told CNN in 2013.
