Since Catharine was 16 weeks early, her eyes were fused shut and she fought for every breath, facing daily challenges caused by a heart defect, bleeding in her brain, jaundice and a heart murmur. After 113 days in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Catharine went home with her parents and big brother, Michael, still fragile enough to need monitors and oxygen. Amazingly, she has no lasting consequences of her extremely premature birth, thanks in part to medical advances developed and funded by the Ma

No baby Peter is not trying to add some color before he meets family and friends. He is getting treated for jaundice. The light therapy which lasted for about 48 hours raised his bilirubin levels so he could finally come home with us. This video was aken at Georgetown Hospital, Washington DC.

Discover how the NICU staff uses phototherapy to help a baby boy recover from jaundice; then see the

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