A Belfast nurse has scooped a provincewide award for pioneering work preventing blindness in the most vulnerable newborn ...

A new medical device launched this week that is supposed to help our littlest babies--preemies--learn how to suck. The Pacifier Activated Lullaby Device, or PAL, uses a specially-wired pacifier that ...

ST. LOUIS — Jean Renaud became septic just weeks after she gave birth to her first child. “I ended up with appendicitis, and I could not nurse,” she said. Her pediatrician recommended her newborn get ...

Skin-to-skin cuddling with a parent has lasting cognitive benefits for premature babies, according to a new Stanford Medicine study. Preemies who received more skin-to-skin contact, also known as ...

(Reuters) - Even tiny premature babies in hospital care after birth can make baby sounds, and are especially vocal when their parents are talking to them -- a finding that could be significant in ...

THE Preemie Foundation of Jamaica has strengthened neonatal care at the Mandeville Regional Hospital with the donation of an ...

A study suggests giving oxygen at a concentration of 90 to 100 percent soon after birth could halve the risk of death for very premature babies that need help breathing. Giving very premature babies ...

More premature babies who had early skin-to-skin contact with their mother were being breastfed at the time of discharge from hospital and for up to one year afterwards. However, this is far from the ...

The last trimester of pregnancy is a thrilling time for mothers because they will soon meet their baby. Although many preparations have been made, sometimes not everything can go according to plan.

FORT WORTH, Texas — Annie Babock was in trouble. The baby she was carrying had been diagnosed with intrauterine growth restriction and Annie, her pregnancy at just 24 weeks gestation, diagnosed with ...