Tag: neonatal-intensive-care-unit
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“I got 99 problems, but a trach ain’t one”
A Kitchener couple found a lighthearted way to keep life’s challenges in perspective, especially since their two-year-old daughter Raiya has...
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the McMaster Children’s Hospital NICU
Hamilton Health Sciences’ (HHS) McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) is home to the country’s largest Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and...
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Preemie doctor Saroj Saigal celebrates 50 years at HHS
When Dr. Saroj Saigal began her career as a neonatologist in the early 1970s, caring for the tiniest premature infants...
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Helping our littlest patients breathe
There is no such thing as a typical day in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at McMaster Children’s Hospital...
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Celebrating Mother’s Day through love and loss
This Mother’s Day, Emma Mastoris is celebrating as a mom of three—two sweet baby boys who are no longer with her, and their brother who just turned 10 months old. Beau and Kilian were born with a rare...
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NICU moms makeover pumping rooms
Sitting alone pumping breastmilk for your sick baby can be a very lonely feeling. That's why parents in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at McMaster Children's Hospital decided to take matters into their own hands. They...
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