Coming Soon: Private Rooms for the Most Fragile of Babies
An ambitious project has launched at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford to reimagine care for the tiniest patients during their critical first days, weeks, and months. Construction has...
Packard Children’s reimagined facility will offer next-level care for moms and babies. “Anson is a super happy and curious little boy. He loves to be around people.” - Shirley, Anson's mom When her...
Baby Nataly is home for the holidays after six months in our hospital. Pablo and Damaris Sánchez found out they were having a little girl 20 weeks into their pregnancy. But the exciting news took an...
Guest blogger: Criss MadrigalTuesday, April 26, 2016
A Story of Survival
It all started on April 5, 2011 when we went to see a pediatric cardiologist in Sacramento to get a second opinion. Twenty-three weeks pregnant with our identical twin daughters, Alexia and Celeste,...
Brittany Lothe, mother to a NICU graduate, and co-founder of Will’s Way Foundation Tuesday, November 18, 2014
A Mom’s Viewpoint: Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
On the day of Will’s birth, 1s were running wild. He was born in the 1 o’clock hour, on the 1st month of the year, on the 11th day of the month. He weighed a mere 1 pound, 11 ounces. Will was born...
After the NICU: Studying Connections Between Prematurity and Development
Fifty years ago, a premature baby weighing less than 3.3 pounds had only a 30 percent chance of survival. Today, thanks to major advances in neonatal medicine, the survival rate has climbed to nearly...
Everything about Elizabeth Rodriguez-Garcia’s pregnancy had been perfectly normal. She’d had morning sickness on occasion and felt a little tired some days, but at 25 weeks, the only real news she...
