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6 questions to ask yourself before you consider pregnancy

Healthy Living

May 2, 2016

Many women think of the excitement a new child brings, but one of the often overlooked steps is planning for the pregnancy. Preconception care, the care that a woman receives during her reproductive years, is important to allow the patient...

Labor and delivery nurse: My premature twins are a beautiful blessing

Healthy Living

Nov 17, 2015

As a labor and delivery nurse at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, I couldn’t wait to start my own family. However, my husband and I struggled through years of infertility treatments to become parents and were overjoyed to finally...

Delayed umbilical cord clamping offers real benefits to newborns

Healthy Living

Aug 17, 2015

Throughout history, our ancestors understood the nutrient-rich nature of the umbilical cord and of leaving babies attached to it minutes beyond birth. However, due to the concern for delaying newborn resuscitation and the possibility of increased maternal hemorrhage after birth,...

Lynch family gives birth to rare triplets, monoamniotic monochorionic twins and a singleton

Healthy Living

Aug 11, 2015

In late March, a Killeen mother delivered a rare form of triplet daughters at Scott & White Memorial Hospital – Temple. In June, two of the three babies were finally able to go home from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU),...

Forty fingers and forty toes in one delivery

Healthy Living

Jul 23, 2015

Trent and Niki Pride from College Station became proud parents of quadruplets – three boys and one girl. Forty precious fingers and forty precious toes were welcomed at Scott & White Memorial Hospital – Temple. The quads began arriving at...