Evelyn Steadman cries after her mother, Erica Steadman, left, puts in the baby's hearing aids while grandmother, Kathleen Jones, holds her at the baby's home in Crete, Ill. on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Jones, 52, is a longtime volunteer who cuddles newborn babies in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University of Chicago's Comer Children's Hospital. In August 2013 after Evelyn was born with brain damage due to a virus, she ended up in Comer's neonatal intensive care unit and, in addition to many family members, ended up being cuddled by volunteers, too. Research shows that cuddling helps calm the babies, many who are born prematurely or who have serious health issues, and aids in their early development. Steadman, 27, says she has little doubt that her daughter benefited from the extra cuddling. (AP Photo/Martha Irvine)
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