Newborn screening: Your baby’s first tests
As you welcome your new baby into the world, you experience many
important “firsts.” For your baby, this includes the first set of health tests,
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Newborn screening saves lives
Before your baby leaves the hospital, he has some special tests called newborn screening. Newborn screening looks for rare but serious and mostly ...
Congenital heart defects: Can you lower your baby’s risk?
Congenital heart defects (also called CHDs) are heart conditions that a baby is born with. These conditions can affect the heart’s shape or how it wor ...
Congenital heart defects: how do you know if your baby has one?
Nearly 1 in 100 babies (about 1 percent or 40,000 babies) is born with a heart defect in the United States each year. About 4,800 babies each year are ...