Premature Birth

Through a combination of quiet singing and gentle touch, music therapy can help ease stress for premature infants.

In the neonatal intensive care unit, keeping fragile infants alive is the number one priority.But new research from Washington University suggests doctors…

In the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, doctors and nurses bustled in and out of rooms with small beds and brightly-colored…

Officials from Washington University, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and the March of Dimes announced Monday they will launch a new March of Dimes…

A Missouri registered nurse who had to abandon plans to walk across the state to raise awareness of black infant mortality rates made her final stop in…

A team of researchers at Washington University has found that babies born prematurely have very different gut microbes than those of babies carried to…

When Reggie Rideout's daughter Maya was born seven years ago, she weighed just 1 lb. 15 oz."I was aiming for a St. Patrick's baby and ended up with a…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 9, 2013 - With years of experience as a nurse and a nurse practitioner specializing in women’s…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 22, 2012 - Mia Malcolm was six months pregnant when she gave birth to her son, Gavin, in April…