I was born 1Ib 3oz, in 1974. They told my father that I wouldn't live to see 24 hours. They allowed my father to hold me. He held me all night. The next day, he couldn't say goodbye so he asked if he could continue to hold me until I stopped breathing. They allowed him, tubes and all. 45 years later here I am. Barely get sick, healthy and a mother of my own
It's crazy to me that you wouldn't put twins together. They were created together and lived smooshed up together for months, it just seems like common sense
Infants can injure each other with their random movements, which they can't control. They flail their arms, scratch, punch and pull hair. When my twin granddaughters were infants we had to be careful not to lay them down too close to each other.
Wow how precious. Bless the nurse who thought to do this. Now all over the world it's being done. She survived and her sister knew she needed her love. How touching and awesome!
it didn’t start in the US. but good thing the nurse did it so that the US medicine started implementing this...they always think they’re superior & ignore traditional practice when there’s no harm
***** Alexander Wanda- What exactly does any of this have to do with abortions? If you are going to use things to push your agenda, maybe go to sources that are relevant to your agenda.
+Julia Luby they didn't go against themselves, cruel and crucial are different words, crucial means great importance, while cruel is not nice or mean. I am not trying to be offensive I just want you to know the difference.
When my son was delivered over 40 yrs ago. A lovely healthy baby . A baby was born in the next room. It wasn’t breathing. I could hear the doctor smacking but no sound. The nurse rushed in to fetch the mobile incubator and banged into my sons crib. He began to cry. As he cried the other baby gave a feeble cry. The Indian doctor rushed in and said can I borrow your baby. He took my son and lay him next to the other baby in the incubator and the baby began to cry louder and louder. When he brought my son back he said in rural India at that time access to a hospital was far away for some and it was something his mother told him was done to help babies with breathing difficulties. Love and belonging a vital need.
@@helenaemiliasanmartin8401 she didn’t innovate anything for neo natal care though! It was a practise that was well established in multiple countries and Europe long before it was done in this case
Everyone is like “Oh, it’s just muscle memory. Just evolution”. 🙄 Can nothing in life be considered “divine”? Nothing beautiful be attributed to a higher power? If one of those babies died would it just mean nothing in your mind because life doesn’t have meaning according to y’all? Give me a break people!
@@IsisMami215 the narrator stated that "a nurse had the "novel" idea....". that means the first, the original. & that it was never done before in the US.
@@vijo424 the hospital could have contacted the nurse & advised her of the shows interest if she wanted to contact them. however, it was 17 years later so maybe the nurses name was forgotten, etc...but thats too bad because she deserves to be acknowledged, plus it would have completed the story i think.
My mom was born premature at 2 months she started breathing heavy in my gramma's arms and she told the docters and they took my mom away and my mom had fluid in her lungs. The doctors had to put a tube in her left lung to drain the fluid and now my mom is awesome and weird but I'm weird too.
Back in the 80s a lady at my church was a neonatal nurse who's babies had the highest survival rates. She was constantly touching and holding them determined that they were NOT going to die on HER watch!!
@@timearly5226 He grew up and obtained his undergraduate degree. He got a foot infection that he probably got at the hospital he entered. The bacteria name is Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the end, he had a below knee amputation. I was not impressed by any of the nurses I encountered. There was a blood spot on the floor that I asked three different nurses to have cleaned. It eventually dried and then I watched people walk through it. That germ was drug resistant. They had me in gown, gloves and mask. And yet I saw Pseudomonas aeruginosa tracked through out the hospital.
My Mother was an identical twin who passed away a little over 3 mos. ago and her surviving twins is absolutely lost without her. They were inseparable in life. And seeing these tiny little twin girls I can only imagine just how close my Mom and Aunt must have been from the start.
+Davedvch ... I read that touching animals is letting them know we love them. It is the same with humans. A feral cat wants to touch me and be touched by me, before he starts eating the food I put out for cats in the morning. A grateful raccoon caressed my hand ever so gently with his paw/hand, when I put food out that wild birds and other animals could count on.
Maybe, but babies, especially premature babies, do respond hugely to physical contact. After all, at that age they're supposed to be in constant physical contact with an adult. Their nervous system and body are designed to use it to regulate their temperature, heart rate, breathing, etc.
My twin, Peggy has always been stronger. We were placed together in the same incubator in 1966, she 3lbs me 2. Imagine our parents surprise When, during my birth, they found out our mom was having another! At 18 years, we were almost 6 feet tall. I cried for a whole year when we were attending different universities in Texas. I went to Texas Tech, and Peg Went to Texas State. We received volleyball scholarships and actually played against each other, twice. We each have a win. Today, at 52, we live about 25 minutes away from each other, but we are closer now than ever. OH yea, I am left handed and she is right. No, we don't think alike at all as one can imagine. I am the most grateful woman that Peg has my back, and that no matter what, we love each other dearly.
Jenny Song for those who wants to be a doctor, good luck with deppresion. Doctors have one of the highest suicide rates, this is mainly because of stress, the burden of saying that their loved one is dead, and having someone's life in your hand. It really messes with your head.
It seems like we should extend the same care to our older people in nursing homes, dying of broken hearts because they are being denied the contact of loved ones. My 98-year-old aunt hasn't had a visitor since April when she went to the nursing home (she was forgetting to take her medication, not COVID related). Another cousin died alone, without a visitor from March until July. There has to be a better way!
I agree and I wish the very best to your aunt. So sorry for the loss of your cousin. It seems that we should be able to visit people in the days of COVID if we have the proper PPE. I know that the nurses are serving as support for these patients but why not let family members in if they wear mask, PPE and then strip out of the PPE before leaving the hospital? Seeing loved ones in person and hearing their voices might increase the survival rate of COVID. The should and the spirit need this to survive.
The isolation and not allowing families to be with dying relatives is ONE of the biggest and most HORRIFIC MISTAKES made for Covid patients! It CAN be done SAFELY!
@@glw5166 Thank you so much. Everyone has their own reasons for volunteering for Military service, but we end up SERVING for the person standing next to us!
Marim S I'm not a doctor but the medical staff were afraid for their lives. My sister, a nurse said an employee on her ward died during Covid. Some people did take their family members home & gave them the best care they could, which is sometimes better than an overcrowded Covid ward. At least if you can't see your loved one get them a tablet set up so you can visit virtually. Try WellTab, if they are not already overwhelmed with requests. It was created during Covid for patients to be able to see their families.
I was born 3 months premature and about 2 pounds back in the 70s. I was rushed to the same hospital as these twins here and stayed for months. My mom had to recover from unexpected delivery. She couldn't always monitor me with another daughter with cerebral palsy and another sibling and also being a working single mother who had trouble finding help. So my Dr used to come to me off hours just to hold me and take care for hours and read books sing songs the works. He has since passed and his kids became great doctors. They wanted my story to be in the newspaper because I survived because back then preemie boys had a higher survival rate than girls. She did not want that type of attention. My mom was truly greatfull he was her pediatric doctor to all her kids. I truly believe human touch helps us breathe and love helps us live through our hearts 💓
I had my twins 5 years after this. They were fraternal, 4 weeks early and in the NICU. My daughter was sick and they put her in a crib with her twin brother the entire week they were there. Because of this, she grew stronger. To this day, they are the best of friends, they even go to the same university.
This is not the first time a new born survived due to the healing touch of a loved one. A few years ago a new born baby's heart stopped and was declared dead. The doctor broke the news to the mother and her husband which devastated them. The couple asked if they could just hold their lifeless child for the rest of the day to grieve the lost of their child. After some time the child started to move then the child started to cry which brought tears of joy to the couple. They called the doctor and nurses and were shocked and happy for the couple at the same time. It was nothing short of a miracle.
Could well be. I mean she was suddenly all alone in a bright, strange place and her tiny premature body might not have been able to handle the stress well. Having her sister there was something familiar. I mean we also tell adult sick people not to stress themselves.
Maybe if me and my twin sister made contact with each other at birth instead of different incubators just maybe she would of survived😭 I have always grief all my life even after 34 years. Me and my twin were 28 weeks premature she was the girl twin and I was the boy twin that survived.
It's true. I don't understand doctors sometimes...I had a premature baby and I was not allowed to hold him...it even makes me sad today remembering the sadness I saw on his face in that incubator. He was born at 8 months gestational age. I felt in my heart that he felt alone and that why he was so sad...he needed me...and I could not make him feel me close. It is really cruel to separate a baby from their mother and let them in an incubator for a week or more. I understand the incubator was necessary but a baby needs their mom as well.
Omg, as an identical myself, Im so happy and grateful to that nurse! And omg we used to go to York beach every summer lol.. we are much older than they are. Im so happy singles of the world are seeing the importance of letting twins be twins, understand you don’t need to separate us in school etc. every pair is different. But over the course of our lives we’ve lived oceans away from each other, different cities, colleges etc. in the end its just as we always know it’d be. Living in the same town down the road from each other with our own families. And that touch from your twin..that bond is like nothing else. We are both happiest when we can be together. Its not a crutch (what they used to say in school as a reason to separate us. “Fostering independence” was another) Twins are born together for a reason. From the beginning we have been and always will be stronger and happier people together. Sigh. Sorry for the novel. This really touched my .. We were premies too. For us, Being a twin is hitting the lifetime best friend sister lottery. I’m forever grateful! I say again, God bless that nurse, you’re very good at what you do💞
My baby boy was born premature 2 lb 5 oz they said that touch would work. I would take my shirt off and place my baby on my chest, so he could hear my heartbeat and know that I love him and he came home a week later..
It was already being practiced in other countries--ie, Australia. Another example of this is when a baby was born stillborn--the mother held her baby on her chest. The baby lived
People have no idea how much we all need eachother. Positive touch, with kindness, love & trust, is not only healthy but also healing. COVID-19, has created a 360° isolation circle around all of us and its negative effects on us, can already be seen. We must continue to do our best to comfort those in need, even at 6ft away, that is where our words come in and the reinforcement of eye contact to acknowledge one another is vital!...
We're currently learning all about how premature and underweight newborns can be saved by skin-on-skin contact and body warmth.. it's very fascinating. Edit: I don't understand why some of you felt the need to be so rude and demeaning. I was just a freshman *in highschool* at the time of this comment and I was simply excited because I had a course (Santé et social) where we were learning about pregnancy, embryos and infants' growth in detail. I might not have properly expressed myself but I said "learning *all* about..." to clarify that I knew about this prior but am getting finer knowledge. We were even going to a hospital to absorb how skin-on-skin works so I wanted to watch something about it and after watching it, wanted to leave my opinions. You as adults (being one myself now) must be very proud of yourselves 🙃
17 years ago I had identical twins 12 weeks premature. One of the boys died in delivery and the other died a few hours after him. The one who survived was quite large and strong, the other was smaller. I think the one who lived didn't have a chance without his brother. I was really scared of what was happening but ai held my son as he died. I wish no parent ever has to feel that.
Hazel Jame It amazes me that common sense is so fascinating to people these days. Hugs, holding hands, human contact, skin on skin contact, all of these things are HEALING to people of any age. Preemies should try to recreate the environment inside the womb where they should still be, duh. Elderly people are in desperate need of hugs, homeless people, the list is endless. When I had my C-section and was panicking, and felt like a slab of meat on a butcher table; someone came in and sat in a chair next to my arm they had stretched out, and simply held my hand. I could instantly feel my blood pressure go down, I could breathe again, I felt like I was a human and everything would be OK. To me, that should be the highest paid person in the room.
Recovering Soul I loved your comment. I had a root canal last year that was in a back tooth and had never had any major dentistry work done before. Being in the US and as expensive as it is, I elected to have my mouth numbed with no sedation. They gave me a first shot in my mouth that sent my heart rate racing. I didn't know what was happenning as they hadn't told me that would happen. I had no idea what was happenning. The young woman assistant sat down beside me and held my hand and explained what was happenning and I just held her hand a few minutes. She was worth way more to me than the dentist because of that. I am also afraid to fly but have had to a few times in recent years. I have been lucky enough to be seated besides truly kind people who would hold my hand for take-off. Isn't that amazing! A total stranger who sees I need some support and offers to hold my hand. One gentleman said I could hold his arm or whatever I needed to do to feel safe. I took him up on that and buried my face on his arm. Seems strange to expect so much from a complete stranger and they could have easily let me suffer and turned away from me clutching my arm rests and sweatshirt like the world was ending. People through and through are truly kind. It's that one really bad person who makes us all nervous of really helping each other I think. Am glad for your comment and goes back to my rather socialist mind set that everyone is equally import at when they are kind. A doctor, a nurse, the person who gets the baby beds ready, the janitor who makes sure everything is really clean, the people answering the phones, the pharmacy on standby, the administrators keeping track of everything and showing family to the room- I don't know how a baby cold be born so well in a hospital without all those people's good work. In fact I liked my doctor least having babies. I liked the nurses by far the most.
I worked at a hospital where they use a method called Kangaroo mothers , mothers and fathers are given time to hold their babies out of incubators to speed up healing through bonding.
that was tears forming ,how loving that was ,,touch can do wonders ,,no matter how old you are ,,they are blessed ,,lovely looking girls,,dad mst of ben so happy to see them grow up..
Twins are super close, & nearly feel eachothers pain & feelings, she knew she needed that touch of love💖 and warmth of her breath in her face. This so beyond beautiful
I'm really glad that I got to give birth in this generation, when the importance of touch has been acknowledged, and newborns don't leave their mother's side. I think I would've cried the whole time if the nurses had wheeled my baby away right after birth.
my twin sister and I were born too early and couldn't breath. My mom told me that my twin sister was half dead on a table and I was screaming crying because I was scared I wouldn't breath. They rushed us in an ambulace to another hospital were they could give us medication and breathing tubes. my mom had to stay back in the other hospital and cried saying, "I wanna see them." She didn't see us for 5 weeks then she went to the other hospital and saw us. The docter said we could have died but the only way we lived was that they put us in the same bed and we hugged. I was so shocked when my mom told me this story.
My daughter was born sick...before we were sent home, I expressed worries to the doctors--she looked beautiful, but was always sleeping, and didn't take the breast. They poo pooed my concern. At home a few days, she seemed too floppy, not alert . In the middle of the night I checked on her, she seemed hot, and she did have a temperature, so we took her to the hospital. Lots of test, but no diagnosis...maybe virus. I'd read ''Touching'', and it made sense to me, so I held her on my stomach (I was given a bed next to hers), and poured expressed breast milk down her throat as much as possible. When the head doctor come to see her (he'd been away), he looked at the list of milk swallowed, listened to how I'd held her, and said, ''I think you saved her life''.
We are made of Love, death is the absence of movement, of exchange what we are..we're not even "things" moving, we are movement..and that takes two points, to move to and from=> relationship and response. Death is the absence of these. So why would anyone think to separate mothers from their babies or twins just after birth. imbeciles!!
this procedure was frowned upon and the nurse alomost faced being fired .... the fda and medial teams and canada and usa really need to look to wards natural healing like this instance
im amazed at how little common sense we have nowadays... whodathunk that twins would have any deep connection.. Being born isnt traumatic at all..... if i were with my twin and suddenly pulled out of the womb and found myself ALONE in a bright loud cold world, would it not be obvious to keep twins together through the transition?
@Equnoxe I saw a movie about Godparents( not related) aquired costudy of twins. The woman had them in separate cribs and couldn't understand why they were crying. The man came over and put the babies together, they stopped crying immediately.
You also need to remember that in NICU the tubes wires and lines are incredibly complicated they dont have one or two nurses per baby for no reason so previously it was probably seen as too dangerous and risky as babies cant follow commands and keep still so phenomenal that it happened but there were reasons as to why it wasnt common sense as such
Beetrroot it's pretty clear she was talking about her children who passed away. Sometimes people need to share their grief, stop being insensitive sheesh.
I lost my identical twin on the day we were born. My mom suffered immense grief. she found this website for mothers who lost twins/triplets and it was a great help to her.
@@Passions5555 You mean, people who see that humans a capable of doing great things by believing in who they are, that there is good in humans? So people who know we only need that to do amazing things? Why would you have a problem with that?!
The news report didn't even give this amazing nurse the respect or acknowledgment of even mentioning her name.!!! If she had been a professor or doctor she would be praised as a pioneering hero (WHICH SHE IS) But I guess her name, her thought, her actions will be forgotten, stolen and claimed by another
It wasn't her idea and was done in other countries. She just did it in the USA and got press and the photographer was there. We were already doing this in European hospitals. She was called Gayle Kasparian.
Over 30 years ago a girl I worked with had twins, each weighing over 7 pounds. They started going down hill fast and the very no nonsense Irish head nurse at the small country hospital where they were born stripped them naked and wrapped them tightly together. At once they turned the corner and started to improve. This has been done many times before in the US so while this nurse was astute, she was not the first to do this.
This seems instinctual to me. I had a tiny baby and she did very well, born at 39 weeks but preemie clothing was big on her. She was barely 5 lbs and my older child was 8 lbs. Skin to skin was a constant in her first weeks of life (not believed that I was too sick to eat during my pregnancy, but that is another story). My first was a very colicky baby and the nurses constantly were upset with me because I would hold her upright and close to my chest to calm her never putting her down to "cry it out" in the crib/ letting them take her to the nursery where she cried the entire time. Turns out she had terrible GERD and required medication soon after. I am actually about 37% Irish genetically though. Maybe that is a factor. :) Really, my children always developed very well, testing off the charts healhwise and I think a lot of it was because I listened to my maternal instincts and challenged the doctors proving mother nature knew best all along.
it may be an old practice, but science had not realized it's significance. that is why this is so tremendous; it was a leap forward for the scientific community.
j a smith sometimes people try to stick to established procedure do much they refuse to acknowledge the common sense and experience of our ancestors. Thanks for giving this example. I leaned from it.
I wish I had a twin man it sounds like a best friend for life that has the same birthday as you get like a person that knows how you feel even when you don't know what you are feeling.
I lost my twin brother 43 year ago. We were 1year and 6 months when he passed away. Honestly I cry when I think about him. I don't remember him but I cry like if I do. I don't know if others that have lost their twin feel the same way.
My twins were fraternal and were in the NICU as one was at risk. This was back in 2000, and the nurses put them in the same crib as well. Same thought process. It was touching to see them bundled up together for that week until I brought them home. They are 17 now, male and female, and very close siblings.
ange wells....Thank you doctor for saving the woman's life who has other children who need her and has a right to her own life. Thank you God, too, for giving us helpful good doctors.
This is literally a story about medicine and science saving babies. There is ZERO evidence for Gods and if we taxed religion and used to money to fund medical research we would save many lives and cure many illnesses forever. We know for a fact that prayer doesn't work at all. Medicine does.
Hey hey hey! Stop taking this nurse's shine and let the world know who she is OR she may very well don't want the recognition in such a way which makes her that much more special 💕
The nurse deserves. an. award.
Yes she does!💕❤️💛💚💙💜
for got the 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I know, nursing is a thankless job, I used to be an RN ,for 10 years , before I was injured on the job. Nurses are treated like cattle .
I would have liked your comment but it had 420 likes and I didn't want to ruin it lol
@@chriswallace9008 yep , unfortunately that is true. So glad to be retired.
I was born 1Ib 3oz, in 1974. They told my father that I wouldn't live to see 24 hours. They allowed my father to hold me. He held me all night. The next day, he couldn't say goodbye so he asked if he could continue to hold me until I stopped breathing. They allowed him, tubes and all. 45 years later here I am. Barely get sick, healthy and a mother of my own
Nattie 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
Your father had the right idea and his love preserved your life - please send him my best regards, he's a hero.
You're the definition of a MIRACLE
God bless you and your father and may our Lord watch over your family. That is what a real man does protect his family and watch over his children.
Hug your babies!
My son said...”They should be interviewing the nurse! She’s the hero!”
AGREED
My Son said the same thing. 👍👍
As an RN myself, I'm apalled to see the lack of recognicion to the nurse. We don't even know the name...
very true
Your son is a genius. Children are really a gift from God. Take good care of tem and listen to them please
"wELL I SAVED YOU FROM DEATH YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ME"
"iT WAS JUST A HUG!"
"nO IT WAS A LIFESAVING HUG"
"FINE
Oh Lord i can *hear* it!!!
Ty for the chuckle!
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It's crazy to me that you wouldn't put twins together. They were created together and lived smooshed up together for months, it just seems like common sense
I was thinking the same thing. They were so close in the womb all those months, no wonder they needed to be in contact with each other.
I think mainly to reduce sids
Infants can injure each other with their random movements, which they can't control. They flail their arms, scratch, punch and pull hair. When my twin granddaughters were infants we had to be careful not to lay them down too close to each other.
@@jillfriedman4797let alone all the scratches they give themselves
@@jillfriedman4797 But they’re “love scratches” ;)
Wow how precious. Bless the nurse who thought to do this. Now all over the world it's being done. She survived and her sister knew she needed her love. How touching and awesome!
Yes 😍!
Because of the cost or lack of incubators, it's something that has been (and still is) practised in low income countries for longer😐
everyone wants to be loved fŕom the cŕadle
She's either acting on instinct, or knew it as an old practice...
it didn’t start in the US.
but good thing the nurse did it so that the US medicine started implementing this...they always think they’re superior & ignore traditional practice when there’s no harm
when a child is premature, it is crucial that they are held. Touch actually increases hormones and helps premature infants gain weight.
***** Alexander Wanda- What exactly does any of this have to do with abortions?
If you are going to use things to push your agenda, maybe go to sources that are relevant to your agenda.
+Julia Luby they didn't go against themselves, cruel and crucial are different words, crucial means great importance, while cruel is not nice or mean. I am not trying to be offensive I just want you to know the difference.
+Syiera Rose
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+Natasha Elliott Thank God someone clarified that for that person who thought crucial meant cruel. lol
When my son was delivered over 40 yrs ago. A lovely healthy baby . A baby was born in the next room. It wasn’t breathing. I could hear the doctor smacking but no sound. The nurse rushed in to fetch the mobile incubator and banged into my sons crib. He began to cry. As he cried the other baby gave a feeble cry. The Indian doctor rushed in and said can I borrow your baby. He took my son and lay him next to the other baby in the incubator and the baby began to cry louder and louder. When he brought my son back he said in rural India at that time access to a hospital was far away for some and it was something his mother told him was done to help babies with breathing difficulties. Love and belonging a vital need.
Wow! God is so good! Glad that baby was saved❤️ Jesus Loves y’all Have a wonderful day ❤️❤️
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Glory be to God
❤ thank you for sharing
The nurse who put the infants together, hats off to her. Such an inspiring story.
Who was that NURSE?
Innovation in health science is a lot because nursing and it is the voice that should be listening in this neonatal example.
Exactly! She got NO RECOGNITION for saving that baby's life with her brilliant idea! the news story just calls her "a nurse."
CNN had silenced not only that great nurse, the staff of nurses and the science of nursing, Beth. Greetings from Chile.
Nurse Gayle Kasparian.
@@bridgetb4204 Thank you for make justice to Nurse Gayle Kasparian' work
@@helenaemiliasanmartin8401 she didn’t innovate anything for neo natal care though!
It was a practise that was well established in multiple countries and Europe long before it was done in this case
What is noteworthy is how that baby KNEW to hold her sister.
Hold them accountable veg cooking
YES! Exactly!
@Ryan Lajara Can't understand why ugly has to enter into this in any way.
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Everyone is like “Oh, it’s just muscle memory. Just evolution”. 🙄 Can nothing in life be considered “divine”? Nothing beautiful be attributed to a higher power? If one of those babies died would it just mean nothing in your mind because life doesn’t have meaning according to y’all? Give me a break people!
why didnt they interview the nurse? she deserves some public recognition.
Because she probably wasn't the first one to come to this conclusion.
If the family didnt know her name the hospital probably wouldnt give out that information. She probably wouldve been very difficult to contact.
@@IsisMami215 the narrator stated that "a nurse had the "novel" idea....". that means the first, the original. & that it was never done before in the US.
@@vijo424 the hospital could have contacted the nurse & advised her of the shows interest if she wanted to contact them. however, it was 17 years later so maybe the nurses name was forgotten, etc...but thats too bad because she deserves to be acknowledged, plus it would have completed the story i think.
Fck you ese
That's great! I was born premature and also was not expected to survive, but here am I thank God. God bless those young ladies.
My mom was born premature at 2 months she started breathing heavy in my gramma's arms and she told the docters and they took my mom away and my mom had fluid in her lungs. The doctors had to put a tube in her left lung to drain the fluid and now my mom is awesome and weird but I'm weird too.
KienjeTheGiant. Me to .
KienjeTheGiant I was also born prematurely. With a twin sister, nonetheless. I thank god for every day I’m here.
God's not real
Stings - The Science Of that’s your opinion but don’t say that to others. Keep your thoughts s to yourself if they’re gonna offend people
Back in the 80s a lady at my church was a neonatal nurse who's babies had the highest survival rates. She was constantly touching and holding them determined that they were NOT going to die on HER watch!!
Beautiful
Animals do that.
And yet my nurse would not allow me to tough my baby. I hope they retired her early.
@@jws1948ja May I ask how your baby is doing?
@@timearly5226 He grew up and obtained his undergraduate degree. He got a foot infection that he probably got at the hospital he entered. The bacteria name is Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In the end, he had a below knee amputation. I was not impressed by any of the nurses I encountered. There was a blood spot on the floor that I asked three different nurses to have cleaned. It eventually dried and then I watched people walk through it. That germ was drug resistant. They had me in gown, gloves and mask. And yet I saw Pseudomonas aeruginosa tracked through out the hospital.
My Mother was an identical twin who passed away a little over 3 mos. ago and her surviving twins is absolutely lost without her. They were inseparable in life. And seeing these tiny little twin girls I can only imagine just how close my Mom and Aunt must have been from the start.
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So sorry for your loss. I hope your Aunt will find peace some day 🙏🏽
I personally think it's not just about "touch" but "love", both babies were very cloes companions for several months
It's close not cloes
+Davedvch ... I read that touching animals is letting them know we love them. It is the same with humans. A feral cat wants to touch me and be touched by me, before he starts eating the food I put out for cats in the morning. A grateful raccoon caressed my hand ever so gently with his paw/hand, when I put food out that wild birds and other animals could count on.
Maybe, but babies, especially premature babies, do respond hugely to physical contact. After all, at that age they're supposed to be in constant physical contact with an adult. Their nervous system and body are designed to use it to regulate their temperature, heart rate, breathing, etc.
Learned in a HMDV class that massages for premature babies, even if given by a stranger (nurse) helps babies get to their proper health faster
Touch and love is amazing
Such a simple thing we take for granted, touch.
Who was the nurse so we could acknowledge her pioneering idea?
It wasn't her original idea, as it had been tried with success outside of the USA already.
but she risked her job to try this method.
Yes. What's her name?
the name of that amazing nurse: Gayle Kasparian.
cryforthemoon if I remember correctly, she almost lost her medical license for this
My twin, Peggy has always been stronger. We were placed together in the same incubator in 1966, she 3lbs me 2. Imagine our parents surprise When, during my birth, they found out our mom was having another!
At 18 years, we were almost 6 feet tall. I cried for a whole year when we were attending different universities in Texas. I went to Texas Tech, and Peg Went to Texas State. We received volleyball scholarships and actually played against each other, twice. We each have a win.
Today, at 52, we live about 25 minutes away from each other, but we are closer now than ever.
OH yea, I am left handed and she is right. No, we don't think alike at all as one can imagine.
I am the most grateful woman that Peg has my back, and that no matter what, we love each other dearly.
Paige Russell Sweet story!! :)
Beautiful story.
I love beautiful 😍 stories like these. Real family love still exists.
“Can you do the dishes”
“NO”
“Remember the time I saved your life”
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Lmao
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Hahahahahahaha, I GUARANTEE this happens.
Lmao 🤣
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Life is full of miracles... This is why I want to be a doctor.
Godspeed!
Same
You sir have stolen my thought there i wanna be a doctor too
Jenny Song for those who wants to be a doctor, good luck with deppresion. Doctors have one of the highest suicide rates, this is mainly because of stress, the burden of saying that their loved one is dead, and having someone's life in your hand. It really messes with your head.
Amen
The power of touch works for everyone. I know when I'm sick and my husband gives me hugs or just lays down beside me I feel so much better.
and the rest of us never get one
Brilliant nurse. Such a simple idea and so obvious. Glad to see the girls happy and healthy.
It was a common practice in Europe.
It seems like we should extend the same care to our older people in nursing homes, dying of broken hearts because they are being denied the contact of loved ones. My 98-year-old aunt hasn't had a visitor since April when she went to the nursing home (she was forgetting to take her medication, not COVID related). Another cousin died alone, without a visitor from March until July. There has to be a better way!
I agree and I wish the very best to your aunt. So sorry for the loss of your cousin. It seems that we should be able to visit people in the days of COVID if we have the proper PPE. I know that the nurses are serving as support for these patients but why not let family members in if they wear mask, PPE and then strip out of the PPE before leaving the hospital? Seeing loved ones in person and hearing their voices might increase the survival rate of COVID. The should and the spirit need this to survive.
The isolation and not allowing families to be with dying relatives is ONE of the biggest and most HORRIFIC MISTAKES made for Covid patients! It CAN be done SAFELY!
@@USAFmedicVET Agreed and thank you for your service on this honorable Veteran’s Day.
@@glw5166 Thank you so much. Everyone has their own reasons for volunteering for Military service, but we end up SERVING for the person standing next to us!
Marim S I'm not a doctor but the medical staff were afraid for their lives. My sister, a nurse said an employee on her ward died during Covid. Some people did take their family members home & gave them the best care they could, which is sometimes better than an overcrowded Covid ward. At least if you can't see your loved one get them a tablet set up so you can visit virtually. Try WellTab, if they are not already overwhelmed with requests. It was created during Covid for patients to be able to see their families.
Put her arm around her like “yo sis relax, we haven’t even started this life thing yet”
I was born 3 months premature and about 2 pounds back in the 70s. I was rushed to the same hospital as these twins here and stayed for months. My mom had to recover from unexpected delivery. She couldn't always monitor me with another daughter with cerebral palsy and another sibling and also being a working single mother who had trouble finding help. So my Dr used to come to me off hours just to hold me and take care for hours and read books sing songs the works. He has since passed and his kids became great doctors. They wanted my story to be in the newspaper because I survived because back then preemie boys had a higher survival rate than girls. She did not want that type of attention. My mom was truly greatfull he was her pediatric doctor to all her kids. I truly believe human touch helps us breathe and love helps us live through our hearts 💓
So an angel disguised as a nurse came in to help? This is beautiful.
I had my twins 5 years after this. They were fraternal, 4 weeks early and in the NICU. My daughter was sick and they put her in a crib with her twin brother the entire week they were there. Because of this, she grew stronger. To this day, they are the best of friends, they even go to the same university.
This is not the first time a new born survived due to the healing touch of a loved one. A few years ago a new born baby's heart stopped and was declared dead. The doctor broke the news to the mother and her husband which devastated them. The couple asked if they could just hold their lifeless child for the rest of the day to grieve the lost of their child. After some time the child started to move then the child started to cry which brought tears of joy to the couple. They called the doctor and nurses and were shocked and happy for the couple at the same time. It was nothing short of a miracle.
It's like she understood that her sister was by her side ... God be praised
This actually looks like the baby girl was having a panic attack, and contact with her sister calmed her down enough for her vitals to stabilize.
Awaken Iron! Totally agree. Anxiety from not knowing where her sister went.
Awaken Iron! Aawwwww
Could well be. I mean she was suddenly all alone in a bright, strange place and her tiny premature body might not have been able to handle the stress well. Having her sister there was something familiar.
I mean we also tell adult sick people not to stress themselves.
REALLY?? (I have to go back and watch it), thanks
Maybe if me and my twin sister made contact with each other at birth instead of different incubators just maybe she would of survived😭 I have always grief all my life even after 34 years. Me and my twin were 28 weeks premature she was the girl twin and I was the boy twin that survived.
Sometimes common sense, like that nurse had, outweighs all medical practice.
usually...
It's true. I don't understand doctors sometimes...I had a premature baby and I was not allowed to hold him...it even makes me sad today remembering the sadness I saw on his face in that incubator. He was born at 8 months gestational age. I felt in my heart that he felt alone and that why he was so sad...he needed me...and I could not make him feel me close. It is really cruel to separate a baby from their mother and let them in an incubator for a week or more. I understand the incubator was necessary but a baby needs their mom as well.
Omg, as an identical myself, Im so happy and grateful to that nurse!
And omg we used to go to York beach every summer lol.. we are much older than they are.
Im so happy singles of the world are seeing the importance of letting twins be twins, understand you don’t need to separate us in school etc. every pair is different.
But over the course of our lives we’ve lived oceans away from each other, different cities, colleges etc. in the end its just as we always know it’d be. Living in the same town down the road from each other with our own families.
And that touch from your twin..that bond is like nothing else. We are both happiest when we can be together. Its not a crutch (what they used to say in school as a reason to separate us. “Fostering independence” was another)
Twins are born together for a reason.
From the beginning we have been and always will be stronger and happier people together.
Sigh. Sorry for the novel. This really touched my .. We were premies too.
For us, Being a twin is hitting the lifetime best friend sister lottery.
I’m forever grateful!
I say again, God bless that nurse, you’re very good at what you do💞
This is so wonderful!!! What a miracle and what a gift these girls are for the world!!!
She looks like she is giving her sister a kiss and whispering encouragement to her sister.
All this makes me want is a hug
I have a twin brother myself and our bond has always been close we always healed faster when we we're together bless that nurse we need more of her
Sam I'll give you a hug, I'm in need of a hug right now and no-ones around
5 years later...quite a scary thing to say😂
My baby boy was born premature 2 lb 5 oz they said that touch would work. I would take my shirt off and place my baby on my chest, so he could hear my heartbeat and know that I love him and he came home a week later..
I cant believe there is even one single dislike on this video! Whats not to like? Its beautiful!!
Their hair?
There is actually 654 dislikes....
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Linda Metzger ,
K exactly. They turned out to be such punk ass bitches. Piercing and ugly hair and that attitude.
I get chills every time I hear this story. So much gets in the way of what life is really about - and what it can be.
A picture of your baby's put a lump in my throat. All she needed was her sister, so beautiful
Wooooow! What a beautiful story!! God bless them...they changed the world in a small big way. 🙏🏽
In major minor ways, yes. :)
It was already being practiced in other countries--ie, Australia. Another example of this is when a baby was born stillborn--the mother held her baby on her chest. The baby lived
Changed the world a lot bit
People have no idea how much we all need eachother. Positive touch, with kindness, love & trust, is not only healthy but also healing. COVID-19, has created a 360° isolation circle around all of us and its negative effects on us, can already be seen. We must continue to do our best to comfort those in need, even at 6ft away, that is where our words come in and the reinforcement of eye contact to acknowledge one another is vital!...
So true... humans crave for a touch.
So true! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
These are really wise words.
I was born 2 months early and with a hole in my heart but it Healed by itself
Becky Swan That's wonderful. Wish you good health.
I have a hole in my heart and are still well now
Me too! But i was born just 1 month early
That's amazing I wish you well.
Me too!!!!
That little arm over her sister. Is precious. Makes your heart melt. Touch is very important.
I have a feeling that nurse must have been blessed with some special instincts
I actually cried because of this because it's so freaking cute
We're currently learning all about how premature and underweight newborns can be saved by skin-on-skin contact and body warmth.. it's very fascinating.
Edit: I don't understand why some of you felt the need to be so rude and demeaning. I was just a freshman *in highschool* at the time of this comment and I was simply excited because I had a course (Santé et social) where we were learning about pregnancy, embryos and infants' growth in detail. I might not have properly expressed myself but I said "learning *all* about..." to clarify that I knew about this prior but am getting finer knowledge. We were even going to a hospital to absorb how skin-on-skin works so I wanted to watch something about it and after watching it, wanted to leave my opinions. You as adults (being one myself now) must be very proud of yourselves 🙃
That was old 30 years ago, you from some 3rd world country?
Yes kangaroo care and yes it has been around for very long but OP is right. They just started implementinf this practice in the United States
17 years ago I had identical twins 12 weeks premature. One of the boys died in delivery and the other died a few hours after him. The one who survived was quite large and strong, the other was smaller. I think the one who lived didn't have a chance without his brother. I was really scared of what was happening but ai held my son as he died. I wish no parent ever has to feel that.
Hazel Jame It amazes me that common sense is so fascinating to people these days. Hugs, holding hands, human contact, skin on skin contact, all of these things are HEALING to people of any age. Preemies should try to recreate the environment inside the womb where they should still be, duh. Elderly people are in desperate need of hugs, homeless people, the list is endless.
When I had my C-section and was panicking, and felt like a slab of meat on a butcher table; someone came in and sat in a chair next to my arm they had stretched out, and simply held my hand. I could instantly feel my blood pressure go down, I could breathe again, I felt like I was a human and everything would be OK. To me, that should be the highest paid person in the room.
Recovering Soul I loved your comment. I had a root canal last year that was in a back tooth and had never had any major dentistry work done before. Being in the US and as expensive as it is, I elected to have my mouth numbed with no sedation. They gave me a first shot in my mouth that sent my heart rate racing. I didn't know what was happenning as they hadn't told me that would happen. I had no idea what was happenning. The young woman assistant sat down beside me and held my hand and explained what was happenning and I just held her hand a few minutes. She was worth way more to me than the dentist because of that. I am also afraid to fly but have had to a few times in recent years. I have been lucky enough to be seated besides truly kind people who would hold my hand for take-off. Isn't that amazing! A total stranger who sees I need some support and offers to hold my hand. One gentleman said I could hold his arm or whatever I needed to do to feel safe. I took him up on that and buried my face on his arm. Seems strange to expect so much from a complete stranger and they could have easily let me suffer and turned away from me clutching my arm rests and sweatshirt like the world was ending. People through and through are truly kind. It's that one really bad person who makes us all nervous of really helping each other I think. Am glad for your comment and goes back to my rather socialist mind set that everyone is equally import at when they are kind. A doctor, a nurse, the person who gets the baby beds ready, the janitor who makes sure everything is really clean, the people answering the phones, the pharmacy on standby, the administrators keeping track of everything and showing family to the room- I don't know how a baby cold be born so well in a hospital without all those people's good work. In fact I liked my doctor least having babies. I liked the nurses by far the most.
The power of Love.
Yea :)
I worked at a hospital where they use a method called Kangaroo mothers , mothers and fathers are given time to hold their babies out of incubators to speed up healing through bonding.
God bless these babies and all the babies and children in the world may he protect them from all evil and harm amen
It is helpful even with the elderly.
Absolutely!
that was tears forming ,how loving that was ,,touch can do wonders ,,no matter how old you are ,,they are blessed ,,lovely looking girls,,dad mst of ben so happy to see them grow up..
Have twin grandsons the bond between them is incredible. One has passed away age 22. The other is still having hard time its been 3 years
Twins are super close, & nearly feel eachothers pain & feelings, she knew she needed that touch of love💖 and warmth of her breath in her face. This so beyond beautiful
I'm really glad that I got to give birth in this generation, when the importance of touch has been acknowledged, and newborns don't leave their mother's side. I think I would've cried the whole time if the nurses had wheeled my baby away right after birth.
my twin sister and I were born too early and couldn't breath. My mom told me that my twin sister was half dead on a table and I was screaming crying because I was scared I wouldn't breath. They rushed us in an ambulace to another hospital were they could give us medication and breathing tubes. my mom had to stay back in the other hospital and cried saying, "I wanna see them." She didn't see us for 5 weeks then she went to the other hospital and saw us. The docter said we could have died but the only way we lived was that they put us in the same bed and we hugged. I was so shocked when my mom told me this story.
Beautiful =")
May we use this as an example in an upcoming book?
cosmiccradle.prebirth@gmail.com
Blessings,
Elizabeth
MarvelousMaddie
SimplyMadelynn I don't know about that
SimplyMadelynn o.k.
Little sis was scared and needed her sis to calm her down.
My daughter was born sick...before we were sent home, I expressed worries to the doctors--she looked beautiful, but was always sleeping, and didn't take the breast. They poo pooed my concern. At home a few days, she seemed too floppy, not alert . In the middle of the night I checked on her, she seemed hot, and she did have a temperature, so we took her to the hospital. Lots of test, but no diagnosis...maybe virus. I'd read ''Touching'', and it made sense to me, so I held her on my stomach (I was given a bed next to hers), and poured expressed breast milk down her throat as much as possible. When the head doctor come to see her (he'd been away), he looked at the list of milk swallowed, listened to how I'd held her, and said, ''I think you saved her life''.
She was having a panic attack. They had never been separated
Yep
0:55 For chrissakes listen to the short video if you want to comment. They had been separated 3 WEEKS by this time.
I cried tears of joy... Lord bless all these children and families!!!! I feel so bad for these kids that have this happen to them!!!!
WHO CUTTIN THE ONIONS!?!? >:(
Lol
+Coral Coco Damn onion ninja strikes again!
:D
Coral Coco Somebody is cutting onions in my house too!!!
I'm the one who is cutting onions, sorry
The same thing happened to me and my identical twin. Premature 12 weeks early weighing only two pounds. Forever grateful to be born a twin.
The hug of God working through twin female babies,this was amazing,God is the breath of life to humankind
Nothing like a good, intuitive nurse. Nurses are truly the foundation of boots on the ground patient care.
Human touch is powerful! Everyone needs a hug!
I wish we heard from the nurse as well. It's such a beautiful story. I would have loved to hear her perspective.
bless the nurse, the girls, and their parents. 🙏
love is more powerful then death
We are made of Love, death is the absence of movement, of exchange what we are..we're not even "things" moving, we are movement..and that takes two points, to move to and from=> relationship and response. Death is the absence of these. So why would anyone think to separate mothers from their babies or twins just after birth. imbeciles!!
Love this!! Love their Dad's emotion!!!!! Twins are so special!💔
from Brighton 🌈 UK
take care & be well y'all!
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The nurse deserves an award....may God bless her...❤❤
So many years ago and still very important! It's one of the saddest things about covid-19. So many people sick and all alone. 😢
this procedure was frowned upon and the nurse alomost faced being fired .... the fda and medial teams and canada and usa really need to look to wards natural healing like this instance
im amazed at how little common sense we have nowadays... whodathunk that twins would have any deep connection.. Being born isnt traumatic at all..... if i were with my twin and suddenly pulled out of the womb and found myself ALONE in a bright loud cold world, would it not be obvious to keep twins together through the transition?
Equnoxe: Right. We are so disconnected with nature.
@Equnoxe I saw a movie about Godparents( not related) aquired costudy of twins. The woman had them in separate cribs and couldn't understand why they were crying. The man came over and put the babies together, they stopped crying immediately.
This was a long time ago though haha so it’s like hindsight bias. We can say we would’ve had the idea, but we really wouldn’t know if we would or not
You also need to remember that in NICU the tubes wires and lines are incredibly complicated they dont have one or two nurses per baby for no reason so previously it was probably seen as too dangerous and risky as babies cant follow commands and keep still so phenomenal that it happened but there were reasons as to why it wasnt common sense as such
These two precious twin blessings,just revealed that more love is what is needed in this world,love,hugs and touching another is very powerful
That is amazing to see a sister put her arm around her sister when they where born .it is the touch that matters .🧸🧸🧸🧸
They still miss the point! When babies are of a multiple birth, they NEED to be together! They've ALWAYS been together. Duh.
Awww that's soo cute a hug saved the other twin :')
Jona200
Being born a twin I know how important twin contact can be.
Beautiful! May God bless that nurse!
Never, ever separate struggling twins at birth from each other or their Momma. Never.
i wish i was able to carry my twins...put them near my heart...let them hear my heart beat...maybe..just maybe they have lived longer.
+Jennifer Grace Bucayo So sorry for your loss
+hithere thank u...im still getting out of my depression...slowly but surely
Nobody knows what you are talking about. Stop trying to attention seek.
Beetrroot it's pretty clear she was talking about her children who passed away. Sometimes people need to share their grief, stop being insensitive sheesh.
I lost my identical twin on the day we were born. My mom suffered immense grief. she found this website for mothers who lost twins/triplets and it was a great help to her.
God is amazing especially when he demonstrates himself
Through humans✝️
just human instinct at work, no invisible men or something.
Wake up, then grow up.
@@shersmk90 there is always at least one of your type when someone makes a comment like this. SMDH 😧
@@Passions5555 You mean, people who see that humans a capable of doing great things by believing in who they are, that there is good in humans? So people who know we only need that to do amazing things? Why would you have a problem with that?!
AMEN Mary 🙏
The news report didn't even give this amazing nurse the respect or acknowledgment of even mentioning her name.!!! If she had been a professor or doctor she would be praised as a pioneering hero (WHICH SHE IS) But I guess her name, her thought, her actions will be forgotten, stolen and claimed by another
It wasn't her idea and was done in other countries. She just did it in the USA and got press and the photographer was there. We were already doing this in European hospitals. She was called Gayle Kasparian.
Hatred does nothing only harm but forgiveness n love is a saviour indeed
God Bless Everyone in this situation! Awesome testimony!
Almost died of the pure cuteness!
Its about time western medicine finally got the message about the need for touch..
This made my heart melt.
+Coolio Critters I JUST FARTED... LOUDLY AND SMELLY TO BOOT.. Wish you were here :O*
That nurse whose idea brought this practice to life, we honor you. Thank you for taking that step, thank you for your bravery and boldness.
a woman intuitively knows touch heals... love heals... congratulations to the nurse for following her intuition... she should get an award
Over 30 years ago a girl I worked with had twins, each weighing over 7 pounds. They started going down hill fast and the very no nonsense Irish head nurse at the small country hospital where they were born stripped them naked and wrapped them tightly together. At once they turned the corner and started to improve. This has been done many times before in the US so while this nurse was astute, she was not the first to do this.
This seems instinctual to me. I had a tiny baby and she did very well, born at 39 weeks but preemie clothing was big on her. She was barely 5 lbs and my older child was 8 lbs. Skin to skin was a constant in her first weeks of life (not believed that I was too sick to eat during my pregnancy, but that is another story). My first was a very colicky baby and the nurses constantly were upset with me because I would hold her upright and close to my chest to calm her never putting her down to "cry it out" in the crib/ letting them take her to the nursery where she cried the entire time. Turns out she had terrible GERD and required medication soon after. I am actually about 37% Irish genetically though. Maybe that is a factor. :) Really, my children always developed very well, testing off the charts healhwise and I think a lot of it was because I listened to my maternal instincts and challenged the doctors proving mother nature knew best all along.
it may be an old practice, but science had not realized it's significance. that is why this is so tremendous; it was a leap forward for the scientific community.
j a smith sometimes people try to stick to established procedure do much they refuse to acknowledge the common sense and experience of our ancestors. Thanks for giving this example. I leaned from it.
I wish I had a twin man it sounds like a best friend for life that has the same birthday as you get like a person that knows how you feel even when you don't know what you are feeling.
I lost my twin brother 43 year ago. We were 1year and 6 months when he passed away. Honestly I cry when I think about him. I don't remember him but I cry like if I do. I don't know if others that have lost their twin feel the same way.
My twins were fraternal and were in the NICU as one was at risk. This was back in 2000, and the nurses put them in the same crib as well. Same thought process. It was touching to see them bundled up together for that week until I brought them home. They are 17 now, male and female, and very close siblings.
It is great that they survived, are healthy, grown up to be exceptional young women. Good to see a positive story for a change.
Fantastic to see the girls now!!! Bravo, well done!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank You God for saving the babies lives.👍💖💖💖👼💌🌟
ange wells....Thank you doctor for saving the woman's life who has other children who need her and has a right to her own life. Thank you God, too, for giving us helpful good doctors.
This is literally a story about medicine and science saving babies. There is ZERO evidence for Gods and if we taxed religion and used to money to fund medical research we would save many lives and cure many illnesses forever.
We know for a fact that prayer doesn't work at all. Medicine does.
THE POWER OF #LOVE !!!
I'm not surprised that it worked -- they've been bonding since they were in the womb, after all!
That nurse,....is a ' nurse '. Bless her heart.❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌷🌷🌷
Hey hey hey! Stop taking this nurse's shine and let the world know who she is OR she may very well don't want the recognition in such a way which makes her that much more special 💕