Inside the NICUs The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, or NICU, provides care for babies born prematurely or with health challenges. Here’s what to expect if your baby is in our care. Every member of your baby’s core NICU care team has advanced training in newborn care, with all the advanced
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How to Honor Women's History Month with Kids During Women’s History Month, we embrace the opportunity to highlight the incredible achievements of women across diverse fields in the United States, spanning art, science, medicine, mathematics, education, and beyond. At Connecticut Children’s and in the Office for Community
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Audiology At Connecticut Children’s, our expert audiology team specializes in evaluating and managing hearing loss in children of all ages. We perform in-depth testing to diagnose a range of hearing loss and vestibular disorder and to measure the severity of the condition. Using the latest Doctor
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Child Night Terrors: Your Questions, Answered By Haviva Veler, MD, FAASM: For most of us, nightmares are a parenting rite of passage. But night terrors are a whole other ballgame and can happen anywhere from 18 months to 6 years of age. Dr. Haviva Veler, our resident sleep expert, breaks down everything parents need to know.
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Meet Coriana: A New Nursing Graduate Already Feels Like She’s Found a Home Not only is Coriana a new nursing graduate, she cares for Connecticut Children’s most vulnerable patients: infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. But thanks to the support she receives from leadership and her fellow nurses, she’s feeling empowered, not intimidated.
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If You Love Children… By Jacquelyn Rose, MPH: It’s not enough to be an early care and education professional because you love working with children. If you love children, you must leverage your view, your voice, and your visibility to improve the systems and quality of services for young children and families. Article
Introducing the Amnioport: A Unique Approach to Amnioinfusions By Timothy Crombleholme, MD: In 2010, for fetal pioneer Timothy Crombleholme, MD, FACS, FAAP, the question was this: Was there a better way to do amnioinfusion?
Orthopedics Research With a Center of Research Excellence, the orthopedics department has three researchers leading a range of local and national projects to derive safer, more effective and less invasive treatments for pediatric orthopedic conditions. Studies include understanding the 3D basis of
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3 Mealtime Habits to Start With Your Family Today By Haley Duscha, RDN, CDN: March is National Nutrition Month, and Connecticut Children’s pediatric dietitians are bringing your family the advice you need to eat well! Scroll to the bottom for more healthy eating resources. Here, we share three mealtime habits that are key to good nutrition. Human Research Protection Program The Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) is a comprehensive system to ensure the protection of human subjects participating in research. The objective of the HRPP is to assist Connecticut Children’s in fostering an ethical culture in our research programs and ensuring that we
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Grow Inspiring: Natalia’s Story The staff at the hospital where Natalia Rodriguez Sabala was born hadn’t seen a patient like her in seven years. She was born with cloacal exstrophy, also known as OEIS syndrome: Her bladder and portions of her large intestine were on the outside of her belly, and her bladder was