First, the good news: Advances in medical care mean the outcomes for preterm babies have improved in recent decades, and even the smallest of premature babies have a greater chance of surviving and ...

Premature babies face unique challenges from the moment they arrive. Born weeks or months before their bodies are fully developed, these fragile infants need every advantage to grow ...

Chi Obidike, a New Jersey mom, encourages her fellow NICU families to be hopeful because "the best is yet to come" ...

A baby who spent nearly the first six months of her life hospitalized after weighing just over 1 pound at birth spent her first night ever at home Monday. Nyla Brooke Haywood left Silver Cross ...

ST. LOUIS — Jean Renaud became septic just weeks after she gave birth to her first child. “I ended up with appendicitis, and I could not nurse,” she said. Her pediatrician recommended her newborn get ...

HELP EVERYONE REST A LITTLE EASIER. SO WHEN I SAW HIM IN THE INCUBATOR, THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT WAS, OH MY GOD, HOW IS HE ALIVE? A SURPRISE FROM THE START. JOAQUIM BRITO WEIGHED JUST TWO AND A HALF ...

Any Monday morning, until the freeze sets in, nurses at the windows of Helsinki’s handsome, modern Children’s Clinic can see a pint-sized (under 5 ft.), boyish-looking man step briskly up the drive ...

The last trimester of pregnancy is a thrilling time for mothers because they will soon meet their baby. Although many preparations have been made, sometimes not everything can go according to plan.