According to The Huffington Post, Forældre og Fødsel, a Danish family advocacy group, originally posted the photo on Facebook last year, but the image is gaining attention again after South Africa's NINO Birth shared it May 14.
"A Swedish professor, Uwe Ewald, came to Hvidovre Hospital (Denmark) to talk about his revolutionary practice, where even very small premature babies are taken out of the incubator to be skin-to-skin with their parents as much as possible. Premature babies, born three months prematurely, are put on the parent's chest instead of alone in an incubator," the post says.
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