“Good morning! I’m your cuddler.” I utter these words every Monday and Friday at 7am. I am a cuddler in Georgetown University’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), six glorious, magical, sometimes boring, hours a week. Over the past year I have spent more than 200 hours holding newborn babies: some of whom were born premature, some of whom were full […]

Raise your hand if one of your common refrains last November and December was some variation of “I can’t wait for 2020 to be over” or “2021 can’t come fast enough.” I certainly heard myself expressing a wish to start anew or fast forward!