The biggest patients in the unit weigh but seven or eight pounds - full-term newborns.

Group B strep can quickly kill or maim otherwise healthy, full-term newborns.

In a study described by Miller, of 41 full-term newborns with congenital heart disease, 13 infants (32%) exhibited white matter injury.

Most affected infants get the infection during childbirth, and it can quickly kill or maim otherwise healthy, full-term newborns.

Full-term newborns are able to manufacture some DHA and A.A., but studies suggest that this may not be enough to foster optimal brain and visual development.

It may occur in premature or full-term newborns with a low birth weight and in newborns whose mothers have been treated for type 1 diabetes or gestational diabetes.

Abortions up to full term are induced by injection; live premature babies or full-term newborns are sometimes killed but more commonly simply discarded into a bucket or box then buried.

The hospital has a Level II Nursery, which cares for premature newborns at 32 weeks of gestation and full-term newborns with breathing difficulties, jaundice or other medical conditions.

In the new study, published in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics, a group of 47 healthy full-term newborns were either put in a nursery crib about 15 minutes after birth, the standard practice in most maternity wards, or were given to their mothers for an hour of kangaroo care before going to the nursery.