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The Power of Love:  10 Years After That Rescuing Hug

7/13/2012

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REMEMBER that beautiful photo of the two little premmie babies and the rescuing hug? I've always wondered where the girls are now ...  here's a video we dug up... sorry it's in Korean, but there are some English bits!
Here is their original story:

PREMATURE babies have a better chance of survival now, due to advances in medical technology and knowledge. But sometimes the best medicine lies not in expensive machines but in the simple touch of another person.

"There is considerable evidence that multiple infants who are co-bedded handle the stress of being hospitalised" 

The story of twins Brielle and Kyrie Jackson of Westminster, Massachusetts, in the United States made national headlines five years ago and began a revolution in the way multiple-birth babies are treated in their first weeks of life. Not yet a month old, Brielle was losing her fight for life. Born along with her twin, Kyrie, on October 17, 1995, she weighed only two pounds at birth. While Kyrie, three ounces heavier but much stronger, thrived, Brielle's breathing and heart rate were poor and nothing the doctors at The Medical Center of Central Massachusetts-Memorial tried seemed to make any difference.
On November 12, Brielle's condition worsened dramatically. "She was turning colors," the twins' mother, Heidi Jackson, said. "She was getting really worked up. Her heart rate was way up. She was getting hiccups. You could tell she was just completely stressed out."
Nurse Gayle Kasparian, desperately seeking something to help Brielle, remembered hearing about a technique rarely used in America called "double bedding" or "co-bedding." Twins and other multiple-birth babies are put in the same crib, where, like in their mother's womb, they lie close together.
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ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE ... People learned about Brielle and Kyrie when this beautiful photograph of Kyrie's arm protectively around her sister, known as the "Rescuing Hug" picture, was published in Reader's Digest and Lifemagazine in 1996. People were deeply touched by the expression of love between the two tiny sisters and inspired by the healing that can happen with just the warmth of another person.
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"[Kasparian] closed the door and Brielle snuggled up to Kyrie and she was just fine," said Jackson. "She calmed right down. It was immediate. It was absolutely immediate."

Kasparian put Brielle in the incubator with Kyrie, whom she hadn't seen since birth. To the amazement of everyone, Brielle showed improvement from the first moment she touched her sister.
"[Kasparian] closed the door and Brielle snuggled up to Kyrie and she was just fine," said Jackson. "She calmed right down. It was immediate. It was absolutely immediate."
Brielle and Kyrie went home with their family just before Christmas, when they were only two months old. When they left the hospital, they each weighed well over five pounds and were considered healthy. "They're doing fantastic," Heidi said.
People learned about Brielle and Kyrie when a beautiful photograph of Kyrie's arm protectively around her sister, known as the "Rescuing Hug" picture, was published in Reader's Digest and Lifemagazine in 1996. People were deeply touched by the expression of love between the two tiny sisters and inspired by the healing that can happen with just the warmth of another person.
The conventional thinking of doctors at that time was that tiny preemies should be kept apart so infections couldn't spread. But experts now believe that the threat of infection is minimal, and the benefits of the comfort and security gained by the presence of the baby's twin far outweigh any risks.
"When you consider what these babies have already experienced,being thrust too early out of the soothing environment of the womb and into the noise, glare and physical discomfort of life in the hospital, you wonder what added stress is caused by being separated for the first time
from the comfort of the other baby," wrote Patricia Maxwell Malmstrom and Janet Poland in The Art of Parenting Twins. "There is considerable evidence that multiple infants who are co-bedded handle the stress of being hospitalized, and of all the procedures they must endure, better than those who are separated."
Successes in cases such as Brielle and Kyrie's have led to many more hospitals adopting the practice of co-bedding.
Children's Hospital in Columbia, Missouri, first began co-bedding in 1998 when the parents of twins Meagan and Jacob Breid asked that they be placed together. Medical staff at the hospital agreed after reading studies from other hospitals in this country and around the world.  

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7/16/2012 06:37:17 pm

It was a beautiful story highlighting the love and care between the two sisters and showing how human emotions work.

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tammy
7/16/2012 10:34:56 pm

yes I agree - it was great to find out where the girls are now too!

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8/19/2012 07:57:23 pm

yes I agree - it was great to find out where the girls are now too!

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Lindsi
10/27/2012 05:21:14 am

This is amazing (:

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Mary
2/25/2013 02:38:10 am

Thank you so much for posting this video - it was great to see how well the girls are doing!

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Rachel
2/25/2013 05:33:35 am

There's an up-to-date video on cnn.com:

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c3#/video/us/2013/02/22/ra-pkg-sylvester-power-of-touch.hln

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Cassie
3/16/2013 03:29:07 pm

Kyrie and Breille go to my high school and are one year older than me and they are 2 of the nicest people you will ever meet and I was shocked to find out that they were they were the twins in this photo. I too am a twin and I really do think that there is a special bond between twin that just might be healing. :)

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3/17/2013 09:18:20 am

Hi Cassie,
That is amazing! We had no idea how much response we would have to this posting and it is fantastic to receive updates about where the twins are today! Thanks for your comments!

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8/15/2013 06:45:20 pm

I read this article a month ago, but it totally didn't work for me.I've been having problems with men and relationship and I read lots of books and articles, but nothing worked for me.

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Mary Grace T. Robles
3/5/2014 09:51:46 pm

The story of Brielle and Kyrie was very touching. God Bless you both.

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Madhav Honnatti
1/19/2016 05:47:22 am

Brielle and Kyrie Jackson story, "Healing Hug" may not be and probably is not a miracle. Atleast there is no proof.
Explanation :
1. In premature newborn infants nothing is predictable. Which one will survive and which one will not. Which will worsen and which one will improve and when.
2. When both the infants were put in the same incubator probably body heat of one was transferred to the other. Or the other infant just improved without having anything to do with the other.
3. Hand of one was probably put on other by the nurse - either knowingly or unknowingly
4. Most probably the hospital and nurse have used this as advertisement.

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Erika link
5/8/2017 12:46:42 pm

What a beautiful story, thank you so much for posting the video.

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