The Happy Pod: The gloves that hug premature babies
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Meet the woman helping premature babies feel their parents' love, after her son Zachary was born 12 weeks early. Also: how Egypt became Malaria free; the homeless tour guide; and the world's oldest battle rapper.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Jamila Jackson and you're listening to The Happy Pod on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:05.2 | Hello, I'm Oliver Conway and in this edition. |
| 0:14.0 | It was agonizing to leave the NICU without SAC. |
| 0:17.2 | I held them skin to skin when I was in the NICU and I touched them, |
| 0:21.1 | but who was going to do that when I wasn't there. |
| 0:24.0 | How one woman's desire to help her premature baby has provided comfort for thousands of others |
| 0:29.6 | around the world. |
| 0:31.3 | A major health milestone as Egypt is declared malaria free. |
| 0:35.6 | If you have a country free of malaria you will have a lot of economic nourishment |
| 0:40.8 | health generation which health generation equals a good economy. The cat who |
| 0:45.7 | travelled more than a thousand kilometers and... When you're homeless that you can't |
| 0:50.6 | in all these big places as well so tourists that just see the way the city |
| 0:55.1 | sent on for the tourist response but everyone's got a kind of under bell issue we say. |
| 1:01.6 | We hear from a man who turned his time spent living on the streets into a job as a tour guide. |
| 1:07.0 | But we start with a woman who used one of the most difficult periods of her life |
| 1:17.6 | to create a product that ended up helping thousands of people. |
| 1:21.6 | Jemile Jackson's son Zachary was born 12 weeks premature. |
| 1:26.0 | Jamele was desperate to find a way of letting him know he was loved, |
| 1:30.0 | even when she couldn't be there in the hospital. |
| 1:33.0 | Worried that he would grow up wanting to avoid being touched, |
| 1:36.0 | she made a pair of weighted gloves to comfort him when he was alone in the incubator. |
| 1:40.0 | The idea developed into something called the Zaki Hug, which is now used in hospitals in more than 30 nations. |
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