Our November 2012 E-Newsletter featured an article about NICU Helping Hands Foundation. Founded in July 2010, NICU Helping Hands Foundation supports families with a premature infant in a hospital NICU both while they are in the hospital, and when they return home. NICU Helping Hands founder Lisa Grubbs shared this touching story with us. Just as breastfeeding is an important part of your journey with your baby, so is the power of touch, and human kindness. Lisa knows that NICU Helping Hands is making a difference in the lives of Fort Worth moms. She’s working to expand their programs and help more families in need. “Early on, we established a once-a-month Sibling Saturday activity. We decided to make rice babies. The sibling will take a sock, weigh out how much rice their sibling weighed when he or she was born, and then decorate the baby. A mom came in without a child, but she wanted to make a rice baby. After she made her baby, she sat there crying. She shared with me that she couldn’t hold her baby yet and just wanted to make a rice baby so she could feel what her baby might feel like. This was her opportunity to feel the weight of her little tiny baby born several weeks prior. She hadn’t been able to hold it yet because the baby wasn’t stable." NICU Helping Hands believes that no mother should have to go through the NICU journey alone, not even knowing what her baby might even feel like. Hold your babies close. Click here to visit their Facebook page and learn more about NICU Helping Hands.