5 Ways to Touch and Bond with your baby in the NICU before you can hold them.

Touch is essential to human life. We learn through touch. We sense through touch. We heal through touch and we love through touch. In the NICU, we know that kangaroo care is beneficial for both parents and infants. Our goal in the NICU is to get infants in their parent’s arms as quickly as is safe.

However, sometimes infants are extremely small or sick, and it takes time before parents can hold their infants. And while it feels impossible to wait to hold your infant, here are 5 ways you can interact and bond with your baby before you are able to hold your infant.