Baby Born Premature Spends 7 Weeks in the NICU. Then His Parents Turn to Help from an Unlikely Source

Fancy and Kevin Childress' son Laramie was born premature and spent seven weeks in the NICU. When his parents needed support, ...
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High rates of preterm birth and infant deaths get the US another D+ grade: ‘It’s a travesty’

O’Neil’s amniotic sac, the fluid-filled structure that surrounds a growing fetus, was exposed. When someone goes into labor, the sac typically ruptures, also known as their water breaking. But with ...
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Mom’s hypertension can affect preterm infant brain and neurodevelopment

A study in JAMA Network Open, led by experts at Cincinnati Children's, used MRI brain scans and cognitive testing to confirm a link between maternal high blood pressure and brain anomalies among ...
USA Today

Inside the high-stakes business battle over feeding preterm babies

In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The ...
WRAL

High rates of preterm birth and infant deaths get the US another D+ grade: ‘It’s a travesty’

(CNN) — Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and amniotic fluid leaking down her leg – was not how Ashley O’Neil ...