by Monique Binkley Smith | Jan 13, 2023
Editor’s Note: Janine Kovac became pregnant with what she thought was her second child. Instead, it was twins. And not just any twins. The East Bay resident’s twin boys were high-risk, mono-chorionic/mono-amniotic twins, a rare condition where the babies share a...
by Sutter Health | Sep 22, 2022
Brad Brack, left, who is on the board of the Beard Land and Investment Co., is shown the training capabilities of the Advanced Critical Skills Lab by Memorial Medical Center NICU nurse Sonja Loehr and clinical nurse educator Penny Owen. The Beard company donated...
by Gary Zavoral | Aug 30, 2022
There were lots of big smiles from nearly 200 growing children who were tiny at birth, but none smiled bigger than Loriellen Byron. That’s because Loriellen was celebrating her life that started 39 years ago when she was born premature at just 1 pound, 6 ounces. Back...
by Sutter Health | Dec 7, 2021
By Clayton Warren and Monique Binkley Smith, Vitals contributors Sam Harris spent the first three months of his life in a Bay Area neonatal intensive care unit undergoing surgery and treatment for one medical challenge after another. Born 16 weeks early at 24 weeks (a...
