is this actually real or just a made up Facebook story?
Snopes says it’s true.
My brain immediately dismissed it because it sounds like socials clickbait. I can hear it with that annoying TikYok voice…
“This person or thing somewhere did or endured a thing that was so sad all hope was lost. But then the climax came and something unbelievable and happy happened. Now you got a squirt of dopamine and they all lived happily ever after. React and follow for more dopamine.”
If it’s real, the OP has spent way too long on socials, they’re talking like a post bot.
Why don’t they have all babies share a bed then? I know mixing up would be a problem, but they mix them up all the time, and this would save their lives.
There’s not enough data on if it helps, and co-bedding risks mixing up feeding, medications, treatments, etc.
The reason why people suspect it MIGHT help with multiple birth babies is that it might feel familiar to when they were inside.
A sharpie to the forehead would solve the mixup issue.
Babies are too squishy. You’d want to use an airbrush, or at least invent some kind of ‘bluntie’.
There’s not enough ability to research it. You’re taking big risks that require getting permission from a separate family, with only a guess that it might do something useful.
There’s not even much in the way of data as to why it worked in this case, or others. But afaik, it’s only ever been tried in multiple births, and only ones that are in distress. That’s why this was even tried; an effort to save a struggling preemie.
Not that research is impossible, but the barrier is a big one.
Makes sense to me that she was losing the will to live because she lost contact with her other half before it was time.
Sometime we just need to be reminded that we’re not alone.
I’m not crying, you’re crying
