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The baby cuddlers: For a sick baby, these volunteers know there’s no better medicine than the human touch

Last Christmas, instead of spending the morning with his family, Cliff Preston sat in a hospital holding a screaming baby.

And he didn’t want to be anywhere else.

Preston is a volunteer baby cuddler at the UF Health Shands Hospital neonatal intensive care unit, proving that sometimes even the most technologically advanced medical equipment is no match for basic human contact.

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