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Stanford Medicine Children’s Health’s NICU has become a pioneer in supporting NICU parents with a continuum of mental health support.
Every year, Veterans Day is a time to honor those who have served in the U.S. armed forces. We are recognizing some members of the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health team who reflect on their time in the military.
During National Prematurity Awareness Month, we’re sharing a story that proves that babies can have a bright future even if they are born too soon.
A neonatologist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is dedicated to increasing Latinx representation in medicine by mentoring aspiring physicians and addressing systemic challenges faced by Latinx professionals.
The 39th annual NICU/ICN grad party set the stage for a heartfelt reunion between three premature siblings and their caregivers.
September is NICU Awareness Month At Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, an inspiring project has taken… Read more »
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health team at Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital reaches important milestone.
Innovative i-Rainbow guide helps parents and caregivers know when the time is right for vital skin-to-skin care.
Sue Moses is a volunteer cuddler at Stanford Children’s Health and is known to many as the ‘baby whisperer’ because of the way she is able to calm babies.
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.
Doctors, nurses, therapists, hospital staff and volunteers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford all went the extra mile to give patients the ‘BOOst’ they need to feel better this Halloween.
Compassionate in-depth fetal counseling helps family make the best decision for them.
Nearly 800 children and their families met up for the 38th NICU/ICN grad party at Packard Children’s to reunite with the caregivers who saved them.
Meet the smallest baby to have been treated by our Preterm PDA Closure Program team.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is the first-in-nation to offer a small jaw treatment other than surgery.
If expectant parents Owen and Jamie Brennan had to guess who they’d be most closely in touch with soon after their baby was born, they wouldn’t have guessed a stranger who lived almost 700 miles away.
A rare genetic condition meant a lot of uncertainty for an unborn baby. A multispecialty Stanford Medicine Children’s Health team came together to find answers.
When Philip Sunshine, MD, now a professor emeritus of pediatrics, arrived at Stanford as a… Read more »
A comprehensive new study of premature babies in the United States is helping redefine what it means for a premature infant to survive.
Smallest baby at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health to have heart stent placed for tetralogy of Fallot.
Patient partners with Stanford physician to deliver successfully after previous NH diagnosis.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health is the first to provide this procedure in the country.
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.
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.
Critical Care Transport Expanded to East Bay
Stanford researchers develop a new noninvasive blood test to help predict premature births.
Stanford approach could potentially impact 100,000-plus newborns each year across the nation.
Treating lower urinary tract obstruction in the womb helped get Kaleb to a transplant and an active life.
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.
Seventeen-year-old Irika Katiyar is a fierce squash player, Bollywood dancer and singer. She plans to become a doctor after going to college.
There’s a little superhero in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
One family’s story of spiritual care at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford.
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!
Programs offered by the development department promote important benefits of reading and skin-to-skin bonding in furthering development of the hospital’s most fragile babies.
NICU grads visit Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to reconnect with doctors and nurses.
A story this week from KALW public radio is recognizing a special group of volunteers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford as local heroes: the baby Cuddlers.
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.
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.
Students at Stanford’s d.school collaborate with neonatologist William Rhine, MD, to look at new elements of design in the NICU environment.
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.
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 and their families and friends enjoyed the magic of this year’s NICU Grad Party on Sunday, Sept. 21.
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.
Bob Zimmerman, volunteer “cuddler” at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and a full-time Visa employee, received the Visa Volunteer Award for January-July 2014. As part of his recognition, Visa is donating $5,000 to the hospital in a salute to the work of cuddlers and other volunteers.
More than 500 families and staff celebrate and give thanks at our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit’s ‘Grad Party.’
For parents dealing with a sick newborn, access to their baby’s condition needs to be clear and immediate. While conversations with the physician or nurse are a key source of information, Packard Children’s found another way to keep parents updated and in the loop.
“To see all these these kids we treated out living their lives reaffirms how special our work is, and it makes us extraordinarily proud of what we do,” said neonatologist Vinod Bhutani, MD.
Katie Jo Shuman pitches for her school’s softball team, and loves basketball and soccer. She also has an artistic, entrepreneurial streak: One of her hobbies is designing and selling jewelry for good causes.
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