Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert recommending parents and caregivers not to use pillows to shape infants’ heads, as they can create an unsafe sleeping environment for infants and may increase the risk of suffocation and death. According to the FDA, pillows have not has been shown to be safe or …
Jasmine Matthews remembers that ultrasound when she was four months pregnant. “They keep scanning the (baby’s) heart,” she said, but doctors were struggling to make a definitive diagnosis. A follow-up ultrasound showed the arteries in the baby’s heart were in the wrong position, a condition known as transposition of the great arteries. Without surgery, the …
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On Thursday, several Nebraska families with babies in the Nebraska Medicine NICU got a taste of the holiday season and a bit of normalcy. , whose baby Isaac is in the neonatal intensive care unit. The Thompson family names Isaac their 14-year-old miracle baby. Their first and only child was born at 29 weeks. “Ranging …
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Juliana Vidigal was just 26 weeks pregnant when she started bleeding and experiencing abdominal pain. She immediately called her neighbor, who took her to a nearby hospital in San Francisco. The news was not good. “The doctor said, ‘Your risk of preterm birth is 100%. You have to go to Stanford Medicine Children’s Health,” Juliana …
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