The time I was a human incubator
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- Опубликовано: 5 дек 2023
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Premature babies majorly benefit from skin-to-skin contact with a parent -also known as “kangaroo care”- because it reduces infections and hypothermia and increases weight gain and parental involvement.
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- Preterm birth: Babies born before 37 weeks of gestation. Complications from prematurity kill more than 900,000 children each year.
- Incubator: An enclosed apparatus providing a controlled environment for premature babies.
- Sepsis: A life-threatening complication from infection.
- Hypothermia: A medical emergency that occurs when the body loses heat faster than it can produce it.
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Conde‐Agudelo A, Díaz‐Rossello JL. (2016). Kangaroo mother care to reduce morbidity and mortality in low birthweight infants. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews Issue 8. Art. No.: CD002771. doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD00...
Samra, N. M., Taweel, A. E., & Cadwell, K. (2013). Effect of intermittent kangaroo mother care on weight gain of low birth weight neonates with delayed weight gain. The Journal of perinatal education, 22(4), 194-200. doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.22....
Thidarat Eksirinimit, Busakorn Punthmatharith, Nongyao Bansopit, Kiatkamjorn Kusol. (2023). Effects of Kangaroo Care on body temperature of premature infants and maternal satisfaction at Maharaj Nakhon Si Thammarat hospital, Thailand. Journal of Neonatal Nursing, Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 302-306. doi.org/10.1016/j.jnn.2022.07...
Sugandha Arya, Suhail Chhabra, Richa Singhal, et al. (2023) Effect on neonatal sepsis following immediate kangaroo mother care in a newborn intensive care unit: a post-hoc analysis of a multicentre, open-label, randomised controlled trial, eClinicalMedicine, Volume 60. Retrieved from: doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2023...
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New charity on give well? Time to jump in a whole lot of data. Thanks for the update!
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I was managing the KMC care project mentioned in the video at r.i.c.e. and can 100% guarantee that the funds are used with complete transparency and accountability. So rest assured, your money is used for maximum impact and goes into helping some of the most vulnerable babies who would have otherwise not had a chance at survival. Thank you for this video and for talking about the pertinent work that Givewell does!
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My grandfathers mother was a 1 pound twin to an 8 pound brother. They kept her in a warm shoebox until she was ripe enough to walk. Shame she died before I was born.
How does it feel knowing your entire family lineage owes its existence to a shoebox? I feel like that would generate some brand loyalty for sure
@@blakelee4555 It feels pretty good! My dad told me that when she was an older lady, she ran an underground gambling club for other older ladies! I think you've gotta be a rebel when you were born a 1 pounder and incubated in a shoebox, lol.
ripe?
@@Fr00stee Yeah, like a fruit, or a 1 pound baby's soft leg bones, or an Oil Man!
@@chrisrubin6445 She sounds badass!
I see you're jumping with joy for your children. Good on you, skipper. That must have been quite a leap.
STOP WITH THE PUNS!!!!
@@marc15772 Man! You jumped on me. My heart skipped a beat.
@@babilon6097When I saw his reply, I leaped out of great fear
Video is spot on.
My daughter was born super preemie after a complicated pregnancy. She ended up spending 4 months in the NICU, and my wife and I held her every chance we could. She's now 4 1/2 and doing well, but it was touch and go for a while and I am certain the kangaroo care made a big difference.
So happy to hear your daughter is doing well!
I'm so glad your daughter's alright! Taking good care of your baby is hard enough without complications, so you and your partner are wonderful, resilient people for pulling through. It's almost certainly uphill from here.
The one thing you forgot to mention is the baby monkey experiment:
When given the choice between a wire mommy that gives milk, vs. a plush mommy that does nothing, they almost always chosen the plush mommy...
This means that the infants desire warmth and social connection over practically anything else that could be infinitely better for their survival...
No, it's just their instinct. They don't know the wire mommy gives milk. Infant monkeys and humans don't understand the concept of social connection.
That was ONE heck of an unethical experiment, i remember studying that in psychology class. Forgot its name tho smthn with an H
@@khadijamalik8558His name was Harry Harlow, he died in 1981
I mean, to be real, a Baby without sozial Connections isn't going to survive, so having this makes Sense for Long Term survival.
I was in the NICU for my first 4 months, going in and out of brain surgeries. What turned the overwhelming odds was my grandfather. My twin brother needed care at home, but he stayed in the hospital for months rubbing my back and being there. Even as an adult, I melt when my husband rubs my back, making everything better again. That grandfather and I shared a birthday, and now that he’s passed, I don’t think my birthdays will ever be the same.
Sounds like an amazing person
I'm so sorry for your loss, sounds like a great man.
I just cried a little, he sounds like an amazing man. I'm glad he gave you all that love to carry with you even if he had to go
Can confirm that sick kittens benefit from this, too. 💖 Never underestimate just how powerful love and affection can be.
I'm sure most parents are familiar with the calming feeling of holding their infants and toddlers... I'll just sit with my daughter in my lap, against my chest, and feel my heart and breathing settle, the stress leave my body, the contentment enter. You feel them settle into you and relax as well. It's this incredible mutual sigh of relief and knowing this is how it should be...
and as a grandparent, that feeling is magnified.
My sisters were bon premature, and the docs thought one of them was going to die. They told my dad not to let anyone hold her except when mom fed her, and he promptly ignored that advice and invited everyone in the family to come to the hospital to snuggle her. She lived!
Good on your dad!
She could have died. There are reasons why they said that, and he just ignored it as if his daughter's life doesn't matter.
My child was born on Nov 4 at 29 weeks 3 days. Been doing a LOT of kangaroo care. Between the two of us, we have been giving skin-to-skin every day since. She has actually been passing her milestones by leaps and bounds. Like you, I dove into the research before I believed.
Great video.
Oh gosh - what a stressful time. Make sure to take care of yourselves too!
@@MinuteEarth Trying to! I worry my wife is pushing herself too much but I am trying to do all I can to support.
All the best to you and your family!
This was SOOOO wholesome made my heart feel so much lighter
My baby was born 8 weeks early and had to stay in the NICU for 4 weeks. I wasn't able to hold her for the first week due to illness. When I finally got to give her kangaroo care, it was incredibly healing on an emotional level.
Such a simple thing is a game changer in neonatal care. I am so grateful for it.
Now my little gal is a strong and hearty 22 month old. ❤
I was also born 8 weeks early, but I'm 23 now. She'll be alright!
My son was very premature and underweight as well, that chest to chest time🥰
It was crazy holding a 3 pound human, but still amazing
Incredibly interesting and just one more reason that we need to ensure all parents have access to proper paternity and maternity leave so that all children can get this important early bonding and safety. Especially the extra at risk premature ones.
My daughter was born about 2 weeks "overtime", and we still did kangaroo care. The hospital recommended it to all babies, not just premature babies.
I'm glad most hospitals are starting to recognize how important physical contact is for babies, doing immediate skin-to-skin now before all the newborn testing and stuff. The over-medicalization of infant care that took over the past ~100 years has been so sad. Babies need cuddles much more urgently than they need a lot of medical interventions
As a premie mum, it’s nice to see this being shared ☺️
Hope she is doing well! Did she have respiratory Distress syndrome? I think you mentioned about Ava in the video 'How Physics Saved Two Million Premature Babies' about CPAP machines
She did have RDS but she's doing great now!
@@MinuteEarth Best wishes to both your children, Great video as always, keep up the good work ❤❤❤❤
Congratulations to your daughter for surviving the NICU treatments, and congratulations to you for staying firm in all that. 🙌👏👏👍
I went from lightly tearing up to instant sobbing when you said "Joey." Congrats!!
As a dad who's loved babies since I was young, I was adamant before having kids that if they needed incubation or separation for any reason, I'd insist on holding them because I knew they'd benefit from touch and closeness. Beyond bonding and enjoying the connection as a loving and affectionate parent, the baby would certainly fare better with that care than being isolated in a box (assuming there isn't a need for intense life support and/or immobility).
The baby raising her arms in celebration was cute
My first baby was born 5lbs, 4oz, at 34+ weeks. Not super tiny, but definitely underdone. I held my Phoenix frequently. In fact, a few times, an alarm connected to baby went off, but stopped AS SOON AS BABY WAS PICKED UP! (Because sometimes I had gone to bed, or to the bathroom.) Phoenix recently turned 26, and is an awesome human being.
*I almost forgot to mention, Phoenix loved being in the pouch (our sling style carrier) until the age of 2.
Our twin daughters actually avoided the incubator thanks to Kangaroo care. 😊
They were born on the weight limit to avoid it but their blood readings were every time too low, regardless of how much milk they drank. The incubator was being considered but 1h of Kangaroo care was enough to regulate their sugar level. 🎉
My nephew was born a 3 month preemie and I know that skin to skin helped immensely! Even as a toddler and small child he STILL got skin to skin and at 10 (now 11) he got off his daily inhalers!! Whether he had asthma from being a preemie or bc he inherited it from my mom (she had asthma as a kid then never again) we’ll probably never know, but what I do know is he never struggled to breathe while being sick and he had the most skin to skin of any child I’ve ever met! He’s been VERY sick, too, so that’s saying something!
I'm pregnant with my first baby right now and I am bawling! How sweet is it that just being on mom or dad can have such a significant impact on these babies! Of course I hope that everything goes well with my upcoming delivery, but it do awesome that there is so much we can do if something isn't ideal. ❤
My babies were full term luckily but we still kept them swaddled up to us while we were doing our day to day things. Made nursing on the go a lot easier.
The name "Kangaroo care" is so cute
I recall a study from decades ago that had to be canceled halfway through
They had a bunch of babies, and every physical need of the babies was taken care of by a team of nurses, but the babies were never held or played with, they wanted to see how this affected their psychological development
The babies started becoming unresponsive to all stimuli, and some of them died, a cause was never found, but they realized that, for some reason, babies need to be held in order to live
How incredibly important that kangaroo care is for human babies! I could do the same with my future child!
there's also a lot of good bacteria that comes from the mother's birth canal when a natural birth occurs, ones that C-section babies miss out on :(
Technically, a good portion of that bacteria also will often be festering in the region between the uterus and the incision in the skin IIRC, but because other, stronger pathogens can also be there, and because the mix isn't the same, infants delivered via C-Sections have to be given a bit more care and monitoring to ensure they aren't being too exposed or being underexposed.
The narrator has a very pleasant and easily understood voice: perfect for the job of narrating a RUclips video. I hope this channel will pay more attention to this aspect of their videos in the future!
Aww, the baby, the kangaroo care, and this whole video is just adorable!
When you decided to name him "Joey"
My heart: D'awwwwwwwwwwww.
That last sentence with the son's name was insanely cute
This video makes me very happy and I'm glad you posted it. Thank you for spreading knowledge and for giving back. 💚
I love how you made this episode personal. Thanks for sharing.
You can hear the seriousness in David's voice when he talks about his baby ❤
I was also preemie and spend some time in an incubator. It's amazing how much we know about ourselves and I'm truly thankful that we have the technology to keep premature babies alive
My brother is going through it, definitely a positive for him!
This was such a sweet video
How did you comment 18min ago where videos was published a minute ago ???
@@6nkuma6 i think it was something like patreon which allowed them to watch it early (and comment early)
@@Geckoreo i think the same, just noticed one guy commented 10hr ago 😅
It felt really special while working on it too, I had a little cry when David sent me the first narration because its such a lovely story
@@6nkuma6 magic
He is a Kangaroo in human clothing!Prove me wrong.
my partner is premie, and seeing the photos of how she looked when she was born is unbelievable, like her dads wedding ring literally could go all the way up her leg! she has some scarring but she's 30 now and doing great! :D
In this happened in a first world nation, that's quite the medical achievement. If in the US, that's one hell of a medical bill.
Wow! What a beautiful story! Parenthood really embiggens the smallest man!
My sons were both born on term. Still i loved being able to do some kangaroo care with them before getting back home.
They never quite accepted when home.
I still got and get hugs pretty often.
David, the nerd, the skin dad, the legend.
For reason 3, I think that a large part of it is the infant instinctively knowing that it is safe and taken care of. Whereas if it is left without human touch, that equates to being left on the forest floor, in which case an infant is likely to simply give up on life.
TY and kudos, and congrats on surviving a very tough time
Iirc, I was a premature baby so I really like this video.
I love that you make the effort to include a diverse range of stick figures in your animations
I was born 13 weeks early, and I am very glad for modern medical tech & my caring parents, I wouldn't have survived if not for the love and care that they all provided.
This was such a moving video. Thank you!
I, myself received kangaroo care from my parents when I was born prematurely.
I remeber hearing a story about a woman who was born in concentration camp days before the liberation. She said that when she was born she was so tiny that she should have been put stright in to an incubator, yet her mother always kept her close to her chest and today this woman it's a granma herself.
Dang, hit me in my feels. Thanks for telling us the story of your child and the science of “Kangaroo Care”
thanks for making this, minute earth team. really sweet and endearing.
Babies micro-dosing on bacteria was not a phrase I thought I'd hear today
Glad everything turned out fine with your daughter!
Right? Even a simple heating pad sounds better than bare plastic.
Awww what a sweet and wholesome story 😙
This is a lovely video. Well done, dad.
I just read about Kangaroo care a few days ago when I was looking up some other stuff on babies and attachement theory. From what I read it's really good. Apparently it leads to great health outcomes and some follow-up study even found that as adults the babies that were kangarood tend to do better, e.g. higher paying jobs.
I was 6 weeks premature, so not so premature that they made me be in an incubator, but I was very small and had a lot of problems in early life(a couple of which still have lingering effects to this day) but from what I am told my dad didn’t let me out of his arms or off of his chest for nearly the entire few days him, me, and my mom were in the hospital. Even when the doctors wanted to do tests to make sure I didn’t need an incubator or something like that he insisted he join them for the tests and do the tests while I’m still in his arms.
Most wholesome minute earth video
Well done saving lives!
This was our lay forum topic during my group's pedia rotation
There should be a kangaroo onesie made for this purpose...
Saw the video title and thought "That's an odd way to talk about getting worms" XD
Minute Earth is a best channel ever be have🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This video and the comments are so heartwarming! In our high-tech world, sometimes the most effective medicine is the human touch. Best wishes to all the little warriors and their brave parents out there!
Microdosing your baby with bacteria sounds like really poor parenting out of context
2:05 that seems more like correlation than causation. You know, people who want to be more involved with their kids directly even if it seems risky would be more likely to just take more care about those types of things.
My son was in the NICU for two weeks, not from being a premie but for other reasons. He was in a CPAP for a bit too. It was quite an ordeal.
Especially since this was in the middle of COVID, there were really strict procedures regarding visitation.
I would literally cuddle premature babies for a full time job😊
Bruh this was so amazing 😭
Imagine if they just let some intern do that instead. "Yeah just make sure to keep the baby out of dangers and by the way our intern Jared held him on his bear chest to comfort him every once in a while he seems to like that.
This story made my day
I would imagine that this kangaroo care has some benefits for full term babies as well, not just preemies.
My grandpa was born one pound two ounces, 3 months early. This was way back in the 40s, so they didn't have any of the fancy machines they do nowadays. Doctors didn't think he was gonna live. They told his mom to put him in a shoebox and stick him in the oven. Fast forward to today, he's 6'4 and still alive into his 80s.
Awwwww you named her younger brother Joey 😊❤
YOUR KID sounds a lot like me wen i was a baby!
You named your son after Joey Tribbiani, the best Friends
Thanks!
I'm sure I just have something in my eye and it's completely coincidental that it happened just as this video started...
THIS IS SO CUTE
Nice video! I think that the first reason given (warmth) doesn't make physical sense. Yes, the skin is likely a better heat conductor than air but if the temperature in the crib is kept constant it does not matter at all. Maybe the baby benefits from some temperature fluctuations?
Could there be a correlation that premature babies that don't get "kangaroo care" are that way because they are too weak to be removed from the incubator box therefore skewing the results of the 30% statistic?
Good catch
I think you're on to something there, sounds like a case of survivorship bias
When I heard the title I went HOLD UP😅
2:38 That sounds like a selection bias, at least in part. The babies in the worst health are more likely to be sent to hospital and be put in an incubator than those that are doing ok without it, so those in incubators are more likely to die because they were more ill to begin with. It's pretty much impossible to do an experiment that rules this out in anything approaching an ethical way.
There's much we still don't know about why certain things help growth and immune function, but happiness and safety are involved in many of them and kangaroo care likely improves both in pre-mies.
Worth saying that full term babies still benefit from kangaroo care-- there is evidence that is helps stimulate brain development to do skin to skin (we're not sure why, maybe the sensory experience across the skin excites the brain? But the fact there's evidence it does makes it worth it even if we don't know exactly why)
Even when they're older, like 6mo to 1y doing skin to skin can still be valuable for bonding--if nothing else they're less likely to aligator roll away from snuggles if it's against bare skin, and in the winter being cuddled under a shared warm blanket can be very nice. (My youngest is currently 6mo so speaking from recent experience)
Great script! Music is a touch loud. But I really liked this video, thanks!
I was a preemie, I now work just near where I spent my formative months :)
Went through this too.
Wow, I wonder where this amazing healthcare development was invented.
Is your daughter a climber? Has her premature birth affected her climbing/exercise?
She is! And a very good one :)
Let’s not forget the massage stuff.
Interesting thumbnail
FML. My son is 1.5 years old by now, and thinking back, I would have been so overwhelmed with doing anything wrong if they strapped him to me in such a premature stage.
Also: I am not crying, I have something in my eye.
actually, givewell’s metrics have some assumptions built in that favor short-term solutions over long-term, sustainable solutions. you can’t treat nonprofits like corporations-they work very very differently
could yall do a resurch about olive trees ecpecilly thoes in palestine when I found out those trees where there since AD I was so shocked