Clinical Department

Newborn Medicine

Who we are

Having a baby is a thrilling and exciting time, but when your baby needs special care, you want to be in the best hands. At Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Newborn Medicine, you are. We specialize in treating babies with a wide range of congenital and acquired conditions. In particular, we care for extremely premature infants as early as 23 weeks gestation and full-term infants with a variety of medical and surgical illnesses. We care for newborns in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), affiliated hospital special care units and our Infant Follow–Up Program.

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Our expertise

At Children's, your baby will be seen by a specially trained team of physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and other health professionals who routinely diagnose and treat newborns with critical illnesses. Our team provides supportive, family–centered care in a technologically advanced environment. We track your baby's progress beginning with our prenatal consultation program, which counsels families expecting newborns with congenital conditions. Our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit cares for at-risk newborns. And our Infant Follow-Up Program tracks your baby's development after she's left Children's.

International referral center

Children's NICU cares for more than 500 newborns annually and serves as a local, regional and international referral center for pre-and postnatal consultation, neonatal intensive care and infant follow–up care.

Life-saving treatments

Children's is the first and only hospital in Massachusetts to offer induced hypothermia protocol to prevent secondary brain damage in newborns. This protocol may prevent or minimize the long-term consequences of brain injury due to loss of oxygen at birth, such as cerebral palsy, cognitive and visual impairments.

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US News ranks Children's Newborn Medicine

U.S. News & World Report ranks Boston Children's Hospital among the top pediatric hospitals in the United States. [learn more]

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