Having a premature baby is a scary situation, especially for a first time mom, who not only has one premature baby, but two. First-time mom Blenda Hadsall has spent the past few weeks in the Avera ...

Every mom remembers what she was doing when it was time to go to the hospital. I know I do. My due date was still 11 weeks away. It was unexpected and Flynn was born too soon. His lungs weren't ready ...

FAYETTE COUNTY, Ga. — After spending several months in the NICU with her grandson, a determined grandmother has taken it upon herself to help premature babies and their families one blanket at a time.

Last year, 1 in 10 U.S. babies was born before 37 weeks of pregnancy, which is considered preterm. That’s one of the highest ...

BOISE -- A 15-year-old girl at Rocky Mountain High school is showing that you are never too young to start giving back. Kayla Blaisdell is leading a project to at her school to gather blankets to ...

Some say music has a special ability to heal, and now researchers are finding that to be true for some of the tiniest patients.This special pacifier, called a pacifier-activated lullaby device, ...

Around 50,000 babies are born too soon each year in the UK and, tragically, almost 1,500 die as a result of related complications — that’s around 25 every week. Although advances in neonatal care have ...

Every Monday, Jennifer Degl leads a group through the halls of the neonatal intensive care unit at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. The volunteers offer support to the parents of ...

The breast milk of mothers with premature babies has different amounts of microRNA than that of mothers with babies born at term, which may help premature babies catch up in growth and development, ...

When a premature baby is born, the immediate challenge is to ensure it breathes easily without outside help. A new study shows that by carefully supplying 100% oxygen to these fragile scraps of ...

Researchers suggest a possible cell-based therapy to stimulate lung development in fragile premature infants who suffer from a rare condition called Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD), which in the most ...