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Victoria hospital launches volunteer program to hug babies
Published: Apr 05, 2017
Updated: Apr 05, 2017
CBC News
Excerpt
Victoria General Hospital wants to make sure its babies get plenty of hugs.
The hospital has launched a program where volunteers will hold, rock, hug and sing to babies in the neonatal intensive care unit and the prenatal intensive care unit when their parents can't be there.
Sarah Byam is one of the specially trained volunteers in the program.
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