Tuesday’s episode (Aug. 24) of 19 Kids and Counting documents the chickenpox breakout that occurred at the Duggar’s house earlier this Summer just before Josie, the family’s youngest daughter, was due to be released from the hospital.
Michelle Duggar is well known for her extra large family of 19 children. Though her youngest, Josie Duggar, had serious health problems and was born premature, the mom says she would welcome a another baby if it happened.
Families used to come in two sizes: big and bigger. But in recent times the number children many families choose to have has dropped to only one or two. Yet with the media obsession over larger than life families, could the number of kids more parents want climb back up?
An amazing story in China! A set of twins who arrived an unbelievable 18 weeks early are set to be released from a hospital in central Taiwan’s Taichung City where they were born five months ago.
For Maureen McCarthy there was nothing extraordinary about the new twin preemies admitted in her ward as she had seen many such cases every day of her life as a nurse. But as days went by, the routine job turned into first an instinctive call to care for them and later a crusade to adopt the fragile little babies even though she was single and working.
Lingerie model Adriana Lima has opened up about the pregnancy complications she experienced that lead to the premature birth of her daughter Valentina.
When Tamara Richardson’s water broke at 21 weeks doctors told her that if the baby arrived before 23 weeks he would have little chance of survival.
After spending almost four months in the NICU, tiny Josie Brooklyn Duggar is finally leaving the hospital and heading home!
Going through pregnancy and childbirth more than once seems to increase a woman’s stroke risk. This is according to a new study from Seoul National University Hospital in the Republic of Korea.
On tonight’s episode of 19 Kids and Counting Michelle Duggar was finally able to hold tiny Josie, who weighed 1 lb., 6 oz. when she was born at just 25 weeks.
Emily Kaye Medema was born on January 11th 2005 at only 25 weeks weighing a mere 327 grams! At the time of birth the reason for her early arrival was not known. This is the case for most of us preemie moms.
An amazing little boy is thriving at a Toledo Hospital despite the odds that were stacked against him. Arriving on December 21 at 22 weeks weighing 1 lb 1 oz, Aydan Lahman measured just 10.5 inches.
A study by the US National Institutes of Health may have found genetic links to premature birth.
While nine months of pregnancy may seem to last forever, in the grand scheme of things, the phase is the blink of an eye. So unless you’re Michelle Duggar, spending a fortune on designer maternity clothes is not a wise or economical choice.
Isaiah May was born to Rebecka and Isaac May, in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta on October 24th and from that day, his future has been uncertain.
It has been 7 weeks since Josie Duggar’s dramatic entrance into the world. Arriving at 25 weeks gestation, weighing just 1lb. 6 ozs, the tiniest Duggar remains in intensive care at Arkansas Children’s Hospital to grow and develop.
Oliviyanna Harbin-Page has amazed many since her arrival on August 5th and now this tiny fighter is almost ready to go home.
The week-old baby of Elizabeth Poblete, born prematurely when the Chilean Olympic weightlifter was training, has passed away in the intensive care unit of a Brazil hospital.
A Chilean Olympic weightlifter who was training at a gym in Brazil got the shock of her life when she unexpectedly gave birth to a baby boy.
In a small study of 20 pre-term infants, researchers from Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre found that listening to the composer for just 30 minutes a day helps premature babies use less energy, which may help them grow faster.
