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\u00a0Photo Credit: David Castillo Dominici at www.freedigitalphotos.net<\/span><\/p>\n

A new study proves that cuddling preemie babies produces long-term benefits. The study falls into the category of “things parents already know,” as did the study that proved caregivers raising kids with special needs experience stress<\/span><\/a> featured on Different Dream not too long ago.<\/p>\n

Long-Term Study about Cuddling Preemie Babies<\/h3>\n

An article on the Time website<\/span><\/a> describes the study Ruth Feldman began in 1996, before the benefits of kangaroo care<\/a> (KC)<\/span> in NICU were well understood. According to the article,<\/p>\n

Feldman assembled two sample groups of 73 preemie babies each at two different Israeli hospitals. One group got standard treatment, which meant no KC; at the other, the mothers would hold their preemies for one hour per day for 14 days…Then they followed all the babies, examining them when they were 3, 6, 12 and 24 months old, and again when they were 5 and 10 years old.<\/p>\n

Benefits of Cuddling Preemie Babies<\/h3>\n

Feldman and her team discovered several ways the KC group outperformed the other group:<\/p>\n