Natalia Lebedinskaia/Getty Images Melissa Wirt found herself alone, bleeding in the bathroom. She was miscarrying her baby, and she quite literally had nobody to call. Just outside the door, her five other kids still needed parenting. It felt like an all-time low, but it also became the moment that inspired her to do something about...
Pollyana Ventura/E+/Getty Images On June 9, the Food and Drug administration (FDA) approved Enflonsia, a new preventative antibody shot to protect infants up to 1 year old from RSV, a viral infection of the respiratory tract and the number one cause of hospitalization in infants. Drug maker Merck says they are committed to ensuring availability...
Damircudic/Getty Images I’ll never forget crouching in the doorframe of my closet at midnight, holding my newborn in my arms, begging her to nurse. Hours after delivering my daughter at a birth center, my midwife left the country. The backup midwife came to my house to perform the newborn screening, which my daughter passed without...
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