Volunteer 'Cuddlers' Offer Comfort to Newborn Babies at Valley Children's Hospital [yourcentralvalley.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 9/16/199:42 PM

By Kristen Mitchell, YourCentralValley.com, September 15, 2019

Not every newborn gets to go home from the hospital right away. Those needing extra care at Valley Children’s Hospital also get extra love from cuddlers through a volunteer program.

Their job is to hold and cuddle with newborns in the neonatal intensive care unit when their parents can’t be there.

One of the roughly 70 cuddlers is Donna Garcia. She snuggles with babies twice a week.

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