The initiative octopuses for newborns began with the Noupops NGO "thread for life" which emerged in 2012 in Denmark and in 2017 in Spain, which the Roosevelt Institute in Colombia has been implementing since 2018.This qualitative research was based on the systematization of experiences, finding that the weavers and its possibility to heal through weaving is related to the ancestral knowledge of how to do it and the mastery that is combined when they make the octopus.The project leaders refer to the importance of volunteering and donations for weaving the octopus, the therapeutic role in the mother-child relationship that these elements provides and refines, and its potential in the humanization of health services.The mother-child binomial in the voices of the mothers capitalizes the experience of being present with the baby, which implies reducing the feeling of anxiety and abandonment.Health personnel highlight the difficulty of the initiative within a medicalized scheme by assuming the octopus as an object of risk, which is controlled with sterilization.The evidenced value in the bond of the mother-child binomial, however, make the health personnel to reevaluate the lack of objective evidence that allows them to "guarantee" sterilization over the benefit.