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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Welcomes First Baby of 2024
Baby Garcia arrives early to celebrate the new year with parents.
Can Talking to a Baby Matter as Much as Calories?
A newly published study from a team of researchers and physician-scientists at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health adds to the growing body of literature linking speech exposure in the NICU to positive health outcomes.
Micropreemie Twins Grow Up and Give Back
National Prematurity Awareness Month has a special meaning for two 24-year-olds.
How a Cystic Fibrosis Drug Given Prenatally Changed the Lives of One Family
Giving a new cystic fibrosis medication to a pregnant woman who carries the gene for the disease was unexpectedly beneficial for her fetus, a Stanford Medicine team found.
Philip Sunshine, 92, a founder of neonatal medicine, retires from caring for babies
When Philip Sunshine, MD, now a professor emeritus of pediatrics, arrived at Stanford as a… Read more »
Woman With Heart Problem Achieves Dream of Becoming a Mother, Twice Over
Stanford hospitals collaborated closely to provide deeply specialized care to expectant mom with heart condition.
Pregnant Mom Survives Life-Threatening COVID Infection, Delivers Healthy Baby
A multidisciplinary team of Stanford experts came together to save Lorena and her baby after complications from COVID-19.
Meet a Feisty 23-Weeker
Emiliana was born extremely early, when Christine was 23 weeks and three days pregnant—still in her second trimester.
A NICU Nurse Becomes a New Mom
Ivette Najm has worked as a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford for nearly one year, so she’s well aware of the high-quality medical care that the unit provides to babies in distress.
Coping With a Pregnancy Loss
Three experts at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and Stanford Hospital offer their collective coping strategies, advice, and insight for women who’ve had a pregnancy loss.
Mom Braves New Territory to Give Daughter with Spina Bifida Her Best Shot
Fetal surgery gives a baby with spina bifida the best chance at a healthy life.
Storytime at NICU
Stanford researchers seek to demonstrate how parents talking can influence healthy development in preterm babies.
Where are they now? Quadruplets edition
The Wang family is truly one in a million.
Including Parents in the Care of Premature Babies
(This blog first appeared online in U.S. News & World Report.) Two of our biggest assets in the care of premature babies are decidedly low-tech: the baby’s parents.
Mom of ‘surprise’ twins takes skin-to-skin time seriously in the intensive care nursery.
Vanessa Applegate was not expecting twins. The very day she discovered her one baby was in fact, one of two growing in-utero, she was admitted into Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
With mass in chest removed, looks like newborn Angel Gomez is going to be just fine
East Bay mom says she was told to consider terminating high-risk pregnancy, so she sought a 2nd opinion at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, where the baby was saved.
Stanford-led study suggests changes to brain scanning guidelines for preemies
A Stanford-led research team has examined how brain scans can help doctors predict preemies’ neurodevelopmental outcomes in toddlerhood. The researchers found that for babies born more than 12 weeks early who survive early infancy, brain scans performed near their original due date are better predictors than scans done near birth.
Neonatology superhero at Stanford celebrates more than 50 years of caring for the world’s most fragile babies
Meet Philip Sunshine, MD, a one-of-a-kind superhero in the world of neonatology and prematurity. After more than 50 years of taking care of the world’s most fragile babies, this 84-year-old doctor is showing no signs of stopping.
