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Bringing New Life into the World Every Day
In celebration of Women in Medicine Month, we honor the women caring for women and our youngest patients.
Celebrating Women in Critical Care Transport: Caring for Patients on the Road and in the Air
The critical care transport teams have more than 30 years of experience as mobile intensive care units at Stanford Children’s and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
Smallest Baby Born in 2020 Turns 2 and Rules the Day
Om, who was born very early, faced death and survived. Doctors don’t always know why one extremely premature baby makes it while another does not. But his parents know why Om survived.
Premature Baby Turns 2 After Traumatic Start
Juliana Vidigal was just shy of 26 weeks pregnant when she started bleeding and feeling abdominal pain. She immediately called her neighbor, who gave her a ride to a nearby hospital in San Francisco. The news wasn’t good.
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 »
Two Generations Thriving Following Dr. Sunshine’s Care
Shannon Ivarson and her 9-year-old twins, Whitney and Nolan, have a special history with Phil Sunshine, MD. Both generations were both treated by him and today, they are thriving.
Tiniest Baby of 2019 Beats Odds to Become Busy Toddler
Specialized teams serve as lifeline for parents of children with medically complex needs.
Language Nutrition in the NICU
Fall into Reading is a NICU event created to encourage parents to talk to their infants for a positive impact on their baby’s development.
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.
Preventing Prematurity: Stanford Leads Research to Help Moms and Babies
Stanford researchers develop a new noninvasive blood test to help predict premature births.
Boy’s Unstoppable Smile Defies Challenging Start
Treating lower urinary tract obstruction in the womb helped get Kaleb to a transplant and an active life.
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.
Closing the Gap for the Littlest Patients Who Need Long-Term Care
The Stanford doctors fuel California’s HRIF state initiative through research revealing gaps in high risk infant follow up care referrals, and among certain sociodemographic groups.
Hefty Nicknames for 2019’s Tiniest Baby
There’s a little superhero in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
A decade of advances in prematurity research at Stanford
Babies who are born prematurely, arriving three or more weeks early, face a variety of… Read more »
How to feed the smallest preemies
A new toolkit from the California Perinatal Quality Care Collaborative, co-authored by a panel that included three Stanford experts, will help spread the latest research on preemie nutrition to doctors around the world.
A chance encounter between a Packard Children’s NICU nurse and her former patient
A heart-warming reunion at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford between neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse Vilma Wong and one of her former patients has gone viral!
Baby born with half a heart supported with unusual ventricular assist device
Brayden McQuillan, now 3 months old, had a ventricular assist device implanted on his 18th day of life to help his failing heart pump blood.
Thriving NICU “graduates” celebrate good health and happiness
For the 34th consecutive year, former Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) patients and their families, doctors and nurses came together to celebrate Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital’s tiniest former patients at the annual NICU graduation party.
Kangaroo mother care: Researchers search for biological basis of its effectiveness
My niece just had a son. Despite the 110-degree summer heat, she has been holding him against her bare chest using a special newborn carrier because she knows kangaroo mother care is important. This bare skin, chest-to-chest contact has many demonstrated health benefits, and Stanford neonatologist Vinod Bhutani, MD, is now examining exactly how it works.
Parents now help doctors decide what care is right for the sickest babies
Today, NPR’s Morning Edition featured an in-depth story on the evolution of decision-making in neonatal intensive care units – hospital nurseries for the sickest infants. Parents now have much more say in their babies’ care than in the past, and Stanford experts who were on the front lines of the change, including William Benitz, MD, chief of neonatology at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, explained how it happened.
Helping newborns through song
Instead of drugs or fancy devices, a small village in India is using dhollak and dafali — drums traditional to the region — to spread awareness about post-natal care and to battle infant mortality. The effort started as part of a public-health research project led by Stanford global health expert Gary Darmstadt, MD.
Sunshine solves a life-threatening newborn health problem — with a little help from Stanford experts
In developing countries, well over 150,000 babies a year currently die or suffer severe brain damage from newborn jaundice. But that’s set to change, thanks to Stanford research that evaluated a safe, low-tech, inexpensive method for treating jaundice with filtered sunlight.
Rare gene variants help explain preemies’ lung disease, Stanford study shows
Because they’re born before their lungs are fully mature, premature babies are at risk for a serious lung disease. Over the last several decades, this disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, has evolved into both a great medical success story and a persistent mystery. But a new Stanford study, published this week, is helping clarify the mysterious part.
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.
Jaundice in Babies
Seeing yellow? Here’s what you need to know about identifying and treating jaundice in your newborn.
Study of outcomes for early preemies highlights complex choices for families and doctors
A tiny fraction of babies born at 22 weeks of gestation survive to childhood without major impairments or disabilities, according to a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. But, although some of these babies can do well, there is variation between hospitals in the rate at which they are resuscitated after birth.
Counseling parents of the earliest-born preemies: A mom and two physicians talk about the challenges
When Juniper French was born in April 2011, her mom had been pregnant for 23 weeks and 6 days – a little more than half of a typical 40-week pregnancy. Shortly before her birth, doctors had to try to explain the possible consequences of her very early arrival to her parents.
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.
Designing the future Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Students at Stanford’s d.school collaborate with neonatologist William Rhine, MD, to look at new elements of design in the NICU environment.
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.
New study from Stanford Medicine Children’s Health points to importance of high-level NICU resources in California
California’s high-level, high-volume facilities have the lowest mortality rates when it comes to treating premature infants with necrotizing enterocolitis, a dangerous intestinal disease. However, the number of these centers is decreasing.
Former preemies share giggles, parents share memories at annual NICU Grad Party
Former preemies and their families and friends enjoyed the magic of this year’s NICU Grad Party on Sunday, Sept. 21.
New March of Dimes NICU Family Support program empowers families with sick babies
To help babies in the neonatal intensive care unit start life strong, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford has launched a March of Dimes NICU Family Support® program, offering support and information to help families cope with the emotional and difficult experience of having a sick baby.
Big Party for the Littlest Babies
More than 500 families and staff celebrate and give thanks at our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit’s ‘Grad Party.’
Packard Children’s Ranked Among Nation’s Best
In the U.S. News & World Report publication of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals for 2012-13,… Read more »
