88 posts tagged prematurity

A Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program-based intervention during eye examination does not decrease pain responses but results in faster recovery, as measured by lower salivary cortisol 60 minutes after the examination.

This is nice and simple. I challenge absolutely anybody who is in favour of maintaining the limit on abortions to do the following: Read this piece from yesterday’s Telegraph Explain coherently why it would have been moral to inject Ellie-Suzanne’s heart with poison to kill her and then to dismember

Tomorrow is my son’s sixth birthday. When he was born, we didn’t know if he would live, so his birthday is a true celebration. The boy who came into this world seven weeks early, is now the master procrastinator. He will wait until the last minute to eat, get dressed, and my personal favorite…pee.

Choosing on a medical specialty involves learning your own answers to a series of questions? -Do I enjoy patient interaction or not? If no, consider Pathology or Radiology -Do I like surgery and procedures more, or medicine and clinical reasoning, or both? note- Anesthesia is a procedure and OR specialty, sort of surgery-lite.

When I found out I was pregnant, I knew I wanted to knit my baby a blanket. When I found out it was twins, two blankets. When I found out I was going to be placed on modified bedrest at 25 weeks as a precaution, I saw my big opportunity. I wanted to make these pretty blankets with their initials on them.

I have to say that I am so super impressed with how Rochester does their walk! They had music, a bounce-around, Home Depot Kids Workshops, crafts for the kids, pizza and hot dogs afterwards, Starbucks coffee, donuts, clowns, face painting and more!

As the co-chair for the Mission Family teams here in Rochester, I get to give a quick 2-3 minute “speech” about why I got involved in the March of Dimes. That should be fun. I guess I’ll get over my fear of public speaking real quick, huh?

Four years ago, I was on full bedrest in our hospital's antepartum unit. It was day 8 of bedrest, and I had just passed my initial goal of making it to May 1st. We already had 2 April birthdays in... [[ This is a content summary only.

Watching Aidan’s development is absolutely fascinating to me.  I had always heard that development happens in spurts but had never really witnessed it firsthand before.  Aidan is currently experiencing several developmental leaps right now.  He is starting to pick up phonics.  He is only 2 1/2.  My

Finally, some good news about pregnancy and what we might choose to eat or drink during those nine loooonnnngggg months. Researchers at Yale University studied more than 2200 pregnant women between January 1996 and September 2000, and found those who reported eating at least five servings of