More babies are being born too early in Alaska, health department says
In 2019, almost 1 in 10 births in Alaska was preterm. That’s as high as it’s been in the last two decades, according to a bulletin released from the Alaska…
Danish hospitals choose Dutch technology to monitor unborn babies at home
Nemo Healthcare, a spin-off from the Dutch Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) has been working for years on a new technology to monitor the heart of unborn children better and…
COVID in babies: Doctors say health care worker mom passed COVID antibodies to baby during pregnancy
MIAMI — South Florida doctors say a health care worker who received a COVID vaccine while she was pregnant passed those antibodies to her newborn. “To our knowledge, this was…
Parents are naming babies after items in their spice rack
Choosing a name for their baby is obviously an important step for any new parent, and there is nothing wrong with seeking inspiration from the most unusual of places. Like…
The pandemic babies are all right. But what about the parents?
For those whose babies were born during or just before the pandemic, parental leave hasn’t been anything like they’d imagined. There’s no travel to see out-of-town grandparents, no baby song…