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National Reading Month: Bonding with babies

Parents expecting a baby don’t imagine that he or she will be premature or ill and require special...

Mar 10, 2022

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Endometriosis Awareness Month: Living healthy with endometriosis

Throughout a woman’s life, she goes through many hormonal changes and cycles, from menstruating and...

Mar 8, 2022

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Helping babies flourish in adulthood despite congenital heart defects

Approximately 40,000 babies (or one in every 100 newborns) in the United States are born each year...

Feb 22, 2022

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Pediatric palliative care: Building memories that last a lifetime

It is often presumed that an expectant mom will experience a routine pregnancy and delivery and...

Feb 15, 2022

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The 12 Months of Pediatrix

In a span of 12 months, we couldn’t possibly share all our patient success stories, feature all our...

Dec 21, 2021

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Dr. Todd Scharnberg: Four decades of serving NICU babies and their families

It’s often been said that there’s nothing more important than your family … unless your job...

Dec 16, 2021

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The flu vaccine: The best defense against the flu virus

The words “the flu” and “flu season” have become so common that the significance of the flu virus...

Dec 7, 2021

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New Mexico NICU assists in the state’s first PDA closure on a micro-preemie

Many babies in the United States are born with a Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA), a vessel...

Nov 22, 2021

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Smaller than a Barbie doll, larger than life

One pound. That’s about how much a bag of disposable diapers or a loaf of bread weighs. Remove a...

Nov 16, 2021

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Like mother, like daughter: A Christmas gift that spans decades

For some women, achieving natural conception, maintaining a viable pregnancy to term and delivering...

Nov 2, 2021