Jubilee Noa Sanchez was born at 25 weeks, weighing only 2 lbs, 4 oz. She endured brain bleeds, heart surgery and a bowel perforation, which required two additional surgeries. Jubilee was in the NICU at CHRISTUS Children’s for 115 days in 2013. For her 5th birthday this year, her parents explained… Continue Reading →
On Mother’s Day 2017, Kaitlin and Michael welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Claire. The family went home from the hospital, excited to start their new lives together. At home, Kaitlin and Michael noticed that Claire was breathing heavily and acting abnormally fussy. They took her to her one-week check-up, where Claire was treated for colic,… Continue Reading →
The tiniest patients are in the best, most capable hands at The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio. Specialists in the level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), provide both intensive and intermediate care to critically ill infants requiring medical or surgical intervention at every hour, any day of the week. The newly remodeled space, which… Continue Reading →
The moment the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word arrived in San Antonio in 1869, health care for children was transformed. In 1918, the first pediatric unit was opened at the Santa Rosa Infirmary. The Sisters continued to care for children throughout the 20th Century and in 1959 opened the first and only hospital… Continue Reading →
Meredith and Gary Cooper were looking forward to the birth of their twin daughters, Holly and Heather, but nothing would prepare them for the girls’ surprise arrival at 24 weeks gestation in April 2009…
At 23 weeks pregnant, Amanda went for a routine visit with her physician and discovered her baby’s stomach could not be seen on a sonogram.
“The fact that we couldn’t see Hunter’s stomach meant that he wasn’t swallowing any amniotic fluid…
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