TAMPA, Fla. — For every 10 babies born in the United States, at least one arrives before its 37-week due date, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2017, the March of Dimes ...

With materials, time and love, Bernice Joy Luxford has brought comfort to the sick infants and their emotionally and ...

Octopuses are popping up alongside infants in the neonatal intensive care unit at Via Christi Hospital St. Joseph, ready to help premature babies. Premature babies like to hold the crocheted tentacles ...

About four million babies are born in the US every year, and one in ten will require neonatal intensive care. Baby Anthony Flores was born at 25 weeks, a micro-preemie weighing only one pound two ...

Inside neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) incubators at one United Kingdom hospital, premature babies have an unlikely companion – colorful, crocheted octopi. These cuddly toys are used as a form of ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Calling all crocheters! ProMedica Ebeid Children's Hospital needs your help. The staff that care for premature babies are asking people to donate crocheted octopi. One is given to each ...

''If we can help others, no matter how small a way it is, then we should.'' Boisterous brothers Jude and Leo Hawes have come a long way since they entered the world, born at just 29 weeks. First-time ...

A hospital hand-crochet octopuses with tentacles to resemble umbilical cords – to help babies in NICU feel safe. The premature babies at the Cleveland Clinic are being given a crocheted octopus to ...