A baby boom – just not the usual kind. This Mother’s Day, the teams that deliver and care for moms and babies are preparing for a wave of their own. Across our Johnson Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Services, nearly 40 nurses have recently given birth or are expecting at the same time.
When expectant parents hear that their developing baby is in fetal renal failure and their kidneys are not working properly they can feel scared and overwhelmed.
When expectant parents learn that their unborn baby has been diagnosed with a high-risk condition, they need guidance and support.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health celebrates Leap Day babies
Baby Garcia arrives early to celebrate the new year with parents.
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.
National Prematurity Awareness Month has a special meaning for two 24-year-olds.
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.
When Philip Sunshine, MD, now a professor emeritus of pediatrics, arrived at Stanford as a… Read more »
Stanford hospitals collaborated closely to provide deeply specialized care to expectant mom with heart condition.
A multidisciplinary team of Stanford experts came together to save Lorena and her baby after complications from COVID-19.
Emiliana was born extremely early, when Christine was 23 weeks and three days pregnant—still in her second trimester.
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.
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.
Fetal surgery gives a baby with spina bifida the best chance at a healthy life.
Stanford researchers seek to demonstrate how parents talking can influence healthy development in preterm babies.
The Wang family is truly one in a million.
(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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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