Title: Skin to Skin
Producer: Emily Halevy
Feed: CWKN #385, May 14, 2008
Time: 1:37

SUGGESTED LEAD: IF YOU’RE A NEW MOM OR DAD, YOU ALREADY KNOW THAT HOLDING YOUR NEW BABY, HUGGING THE CHILD … HELPS THAT INFANT FEEL HAPPY AND SECURE.  BUT IT TURNS OUT, IT DOES EVEN MORE. IT CAN ACTUALLY REDUCE THE PAIN A CHILD FEELS DURING BLOOD TESTS AND OTHER MEDICAL PROCEDURES.  THAT STORY IN TONIGHT’S CONNECT WITH KIDS.
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NATS: mom to babies (:00)
“Hi.”

NARR: THE HENDERSON TWINS … ALEXANDRA AND ABIGAIL … WERE BORN 12 WEEKS PREMATURE.

AS PART OF THEIR DAILY ROUTINE … THE TWINS’ MOM DOES “KANGAROO CARE”… 45 MINUTES A DAY … PUTTING THEIR BARE SKIN … RIGHT UP AGAINST HERS. (:15)

SUPER: Debby Pollack, M.D., Pediatrician (:18)
“Newborns who have lots of skin-to-skin contact that are sick, get well quicker, gain weight more quickly, seem to have a more stable heart rate and respiratory rate and often can leave the hospital sooner than an infant who doesn’t have skin-to-skin contact.”

SUPER: Laura Henderson, Twin’s Mother (:33)       
“It’s just a very comforting thing for me I think, as well as them. And as a mother, you’d like to hold your babies. And I think it’s a very natural thing to want them next to your skin—next to your body, as close as you can get them.”

NARR: AND, ACCORDING TO A STUDY FROM MCGILL UNIVERSITY IN MONTREAL- WHEN STUCK WITH A NEEDLE, PREMATURE BABIES HELD BY THEIR MOTHERS GET OVER THE PAIN MUCH FASTER THAN BABIES SWADDLED IN A BLANKET. (:12)

NATS: nurse to mom (:56)
“I want you to put her in your arms and kind of like cuddle her.”

SOT: Debby Pollack, M.D., Pediatrician (:59)
“Infants who have skin-to-skin contact during a heel lance for a blood draw, would have less crying. And less facial expression that’s seen with pain.”
 
NATS: nurse to baby, baby crying (1:11)
“Oh I know that was not fun. It’s all over though. You’re a big girl.”

SOT: Laura Henderson, Twin’s Mother (1:21)        
“She gave that initial cry—but then she seemed to calm down.”

SOT: Debby Pollack, M.D., Pediatrician (1:25)
“If something this simple and that actually helps the parents feel better as well, can help with infant pain—it’s an easy way to reduce pain in hospital and office blood draws.”

NARR: I’M COLLIN SIEDOR FOR CONNECT WITH KIDS. (:03)

SUGGESTED TAG:   DOCTORS SAY SKIN-TO-SKIN MAY NOT BE PRACTICAL IN EVERY SITUATION. FOR INSTANCE, WITH A SICK NEWBORN, WHO IS GETTING BLOOD DRAWN EVERY FEW HOURS.