Jill is a mother of four. She attends the University of West Georgia where she is pursuing her dream of becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife
Little Addison was born three months early and weighed just 13.7 ounces. At her birth, doctors at Bay Area Hospital gave her a very slim chance of survival. Now Addison is about to celebrate her first birthday- and she is a happy and healthy little girl.
Experts say that it only takes twenty seconds for a toddler to drown, and the death toll in Canada is rising at an alarming rate.
Nationally, the death toll has risen from 194 in 2009 to 230 this year, and the time period that historically has the most number of drowning deaths has not yet passed.
When Emergency workers arrived at a Kansas City home after a 911 call from a woman who said her daughter was in labor they were handed a bloody towel with a tiny baby inside. The woman said it was stillborn, but then the rescue worker felt a tiny foot move against her hand.
America is a very special miracle baby, born to immigrant parents in Indiana. She was born at just 24 weeks gestation and weighed only 11 ounces. Doctors gave her only a 10% chance of survival at birth, but little America had other plans.
A North Carolina toddler has amazed everyone by recovering from a potentially life threatening injury. Doctors thought there was no chance of survival when 17 month old Jessiah Jackson arrived at the hospital with a metal rod lodged in his head.
Even though he is only 2 days only, Mason Otten is already making news.
The tiny baby was born prematurely on July 22nd and is now in St. Louis Children’s Hospital where he is being treated for gastroschesis.
Project Linus is organized and operated by 100% member volunteers. These individuals purchase their own materials and invest countless hours of time to provide comfort to so many children.
A set of 23 week twins are showing the world and UK lawmakers that survival is possible before the viability threshold of 24 weeks gestation.
Violet Lee is a two-year-old little girl from Brooklyn that is suffering from a serious immune disease. Her chemotherapy begins on July 21, to help her body prepare for a bone-marrow transplant she will be having soon.
There has been a vast amount of research done over the last few years to study the effects that a mother’s weight before conception has on both the pregnancy and the newborn. A recent study conducted by Dr. Zuschman, an Australian OB-GYN, focused on women that had a body index mass, or BMI, greater than 30kg/m2.
A study conducted by the University College Cork in Ireland recently discovered a link between teen pregnancies and preterm births. In this study, 55,000 pregnancies were reviewed, and the research showed an obvious trend.
There was some excitement in the air this week when a plane flying from Germany to Colorado received an unexpected extra passenger – during the flight.
A UK couple, who tried for 5 years to have a baby, has been left devastated after hospital staff refused give their premature baby medical intervention – because she was born one week too early.
