Inside the neonatal intensive care unit at Medical City Alliance in Fort Worth, premature babies, like Oliver Chacon, snuggle with an eight-armed, colorful stuffed octopus as part of their treatment.

As any family who has had a premature baby will be painfully aware, the period of time in between baby being born and being strong enough to go home is one of the most difficult periods a parent can ...

CHELTENHAM >> The Knitters of La Mott Community Center collaborated with ROOTS Inc. to deliver knitted items and books to the Thomas Jefferson and Einstein NICU on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of ...

A 73-YEAR-old woman has knitted three octopuses for premature babies in the city’s hospital. Margaret Palmer, from Derby, answered an appeal for more of the creatures to be donated to the ...

THERE has been an outpouring of support for an appeal to create knitted or crocheted octopuses for Worcestershire's tiniest babies. Already, Carla Gregg, who set up Operation Octopus, has been ...

Cute babies in red hats—oh, my! The American Heart Foundation recently launched a "Little Hats, Big Hearts" campaign in which newborn babies don scarlet headwear to spread the word about heart disease ...