Expecting? Get your questions answered via our Beginnings app
For pregnant women who are on the go, Allina Health now offers the award-winning manual Beginnings: Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond as an app. It can be downloaded from iTunes. “Everyone is getting into...
View ArticleBreastfeeding success creates lifetime of benefits
By the International Lactation Consultant Association World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated Aug. 1-7. This year’s theme is “Breastfeeding: A Winning Goal for Life!,” which acknowledges that when...
View ArticleIan’s Story: Treating an omphalocele at the Midwest Fetal Care Center
Like most couples, Hopkins, Minn., residents Leah and Todd Kempel expected to have a healthy and orderly pregnancy. They were relieved and excited after finally receiving a positive pregnancy test and...
View ArticleAstella’s Story: Treating an abdominal wall defect at the Midwest Fetal Care...
By Jimmy Bellamy The everyday, normal duties of parenting thrill Jake and Andi Jo Kurtz. Diapers, bottles and sleep deprivation are welcome in their household. It took a lot of work to become parents,...
View ArticleThen and now: Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome babies Luke and Will Kuhn
For Kurtis and Sonja Kuhn, seeing their “miracle babies,” Luke and Will, running, jumping and playing is a constant reminder of the uncertainty and joy that being a parent can bring – as well as what...
View ArticleRocco’s story: Finding hope in a congenital diaphragmatic hernia diagnosis
Lindsey and Eddie Rymer were thrilled to find out in October 2013 that they were expecting their second child. After a relatively easy pregnancy with their eldest daughter, Lucy, the Rymers had no...
View Article2015 Twin Cities New Year’s baby born at The Mother Baby Center in Minneapolis
The Mother Baby Center in Minneapolis welcomed the first Twin Cities baby of 2015 at 12:01 a.m. today. Yaw, a boy, was born weighing 7 pounds, 9.5 ounces and 20.25 inches in length. Mother and son are...
View ArticleNurse at The Mother Baby Center to be inducted as American Academy of Nursing...
Ngozi Mbibi, DNP, RNC-OB, of The Mother Baby Center at Abbott Northwestern and Children’s – Minneapolis will be inducted as a fellow into the American Academy of Nursing during its annual policy...
View ArticleThe Mother Baby Center turns 3
Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday to us! On Feb. 4, 2013, we opened our first center — The Mother Baby Center in Minneapolis — as a collaboration between Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of...
View ArticleMidwest Fetal Care Center opens new clinic space
The Michael and Ann Ciresi Midwest Fetal Care Center, located in Minneapolis at The Mother Baby Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Children’s Minnesota, opened Monday. The new,...
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