Couple Conceives After Years of Trying, Celebrates Healthy Baby Girl
Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Health Services helps couple overcome roadblocks to pregnancy.
Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Health Services helps couple overcome roadblocks to pregnancy.
Ever since Iliana had a fetal surgery, she has been defying the odds that often accompany her serious form of spina bifida.
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.
A recently published study outlines several pregnancy and birth risks for mothers in two-mom families. Certain complications, including serious conditions such as postpartum hemorrhage, were substantially more common in these mothers.
Stanford hospitals collaborated closely to provide deeply specialized care to expectant mom with heart condition.
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford rang in 2022 by welcoming its first New Year’s baby on Saturday morning at 8:42 a.m.
Patient partners with Stanford physician to deliver successfully after previous NH diagnosis.
A multidisciplinary team of Stanford experts came together to save Lorena and her baby after complications from COVID-19.
Since 1991, the hospital and health system have logged more than 6.1 million clinic visits, 2041 solid organ transplants, and 129,574 births.
New Stanford research finds labeled surgical caps improve communication among patients and health care providers during C-sections.
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.
Packard Children’s Hospital is one of the few medical centers that can offer EXIT procedure.
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.
Most moms-to-be know that exercising during pregnancy can be a big plus for mood and physical health. But how much is too much?
Jagdip Powar, MD, an obstetrician for the Stanford Medicine Children’s Health network, shares his expertise on the dos and don’ts of traveling while pregnant.
We caught up with Zena Kharsa, MD, of the Stanford Medicine Women’s Health practice in Palo Alto and asked her to shed light on the topic of morning sickness.
Multiples attract attention, there’s no getting around it. People approach you in public, sometimes just to look at your babies and say “Aw,” sometimes to tell you about twins they know, sometimes to tell you they are a twin! Amy Letter shares more in part two of her series on having multiples.
Hearing your baby’s heartbeat for the first time is amazing. Hearing the second heartbeat is harder to describe.
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.
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.
When Emily Ballenger of San Jose delivers her twins in August at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, she’ll also be credited with helping train a medical student in the art of patient-centered care and relationship building.
When a pregnant woman’s heart stops, two lives are threatened. Yet few caregivers know how to modify their cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) technique for the expectant mom and her fetus, and few hospitals are optimally prepared for such an event.