ProMedica Ebeid Children's Hospital needs your help. The staff that care for premature babies are ... You can find the pattern to crochet the octopus yourself (for a fee) here.

Inside neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) incubators at one United Kingdom hospital, premature babies have an unlikely ... kind response to our appeal for crochet octopi,” Lockyer said in ...

Marie Richter, neonatal unit matron at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust received octopuses for premature ... are safe for the babies. Volunteers are given the crochet pattern to work with.

A HOSPITAL has asked people to stop crocheting cuddly octopus toys after an appeal to give every premature ... octopi calmed babies, led to improved breathing and cardiac patterns and, as a ...

Premature babies born in some Australian hospitals are now being given their own 'octopuses' after they arrive, all thanks to the efforts of some very special volunteers. The eight-legged ...

One of her friends had given birth to a baby prematurely ... continue to crochet regularly to ensure a ready pool of octopuses for any parent of a preemie who reaches out. Two hospitals ...

It began when a colleague highlighted an appeal at Craigavon Area Hospital for tiny hats for premature babies. "The prisoners wanted to help and when I said I could teach them how to crochet they ...

THESE hospital nurses are enjoying some unlikely support with premature babies – from cute creatures. The neonatal unit at Poole Hospital has been inundated with donations of crocheted octopuses ...

Clark, 70, a grandmother of nine living in Knoxville, Tennessee, says she discovered the basket and a preemie hat pattern ... and premature babies in East Tennessee Children’s Hospital’s ...