‘The baby never leaves that incubator’ captures the separation at the center of a report about premature infants and their parents. A new experimental wearable device is designed to change that experience by allowing earlier and longer physical contact.

The device is called the Skincubator. Its purpose is to allow premature babies to have earlier and longer skin-to-skin contact with their parents while addressing the limits associated with remaining inside an incubator.

Dorian Ojemen became the first dad in the US to use the Skincubator. His experience marks the first reported use of the experimental device by a father in the country.

The report presents the Skincubator as a new option for parents who want to hold their premature infants. Rather than describing the device as an established part of care, it clearly identifies the technology as experimental.

Ojemen spoke with CNN’s Jacqueline Howard about what it was like to use the device. The available report focuses on his experience rather than offering broader findings about other parents or infants.

The central feature is skin-to-skin contact between premature babies and their parents. According to the report, the Skincubator was designed to make that contact possible earlier and for longer periods.

Those two aims are important to the way the device is presented. The report does not provide a specific contact duration, nor does it state how much earlier a parent can begin holding an infant while using it.

The source also does not identify the infant involved in Ojemen’s experience. No age, birth date, medical diagnosis, weight, treatment schedule, or length of time in an incubator is included in the available material.

Details about how the Skincubator functions are similarly limited. It is described as wearable, but the report does not provide technical specifications, materials, operating instructions, or information about how it is positioned during contact.

The description does not name the device’s developer, manufacturer, research sponsor, or medical institution. It also does not state where Ojemen used the Skincubator or identify the clinicians involved in the experience.

No trial size, study period, research results, or comparison data are provided. The report therefore does not make claims about medical outcomes, effectiveness, safety findings, or how the device compares with other approaches.

Instead, the account remains centered on access to physical contact. It presents the Skincubator as a device intended to let parents hold premature babies earlier and maintain skin-to-skin contact for longer.

Ojemen’s participation gives the story a specific personal focus. As the first dad in the US to use the experimental wearable, he described the experience in a conversation with Howard for CNN.

The report’s framing contrasts the image of a baby remaining in an incubator with the possibility of parental contact. It does not say that the Skincubator replaces an incubator or any other equipment, treatment, or medical care.

The device’s experimental status remains a defining detail. The available information does not indicate whether additional parents have used it, whether further testing is planned, or when it might become more widely available.

Even with those unanswered questions, the development described by CNN is clear: one US father has used a wearable designed to enable earlier and longer skin-to-skin contact with a premature infant. For Ojemen, that experience placed him at the start of the device’s reported use among American dads.