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NICU Patient Stories: Where Are They Now?
Providing hope, healing and expertise for our smallest and most vulnerable patients.
At Children’s Hospital Colorado’s Fetal Care Center, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and Heart Institute, we specialize in caring for critically ill newborns before birth and during their first days, weeks and months. But our goal is that they have many, many healthy months and years after that. Thanks to our dedicated care team and advanced capabilities, many of these babies go on to live rich, full lives.
From prematurity to complex heart conditions to breathing issues and more, we have helped thousands of babies overcome severe conditions. Keep reading to learn where some of those babies are today and see how far they have come.
Meet the families we've helped
Zeke and Zane: Overcoming Long Odds with Expert Fetal Cardiology Care
The odds that Zeke and Zane would have the same heart condition are long. They needed an amazing care team to overcome those odds, and they got just that.
Emma: Conquering Myelomeningocele
Emma’s parents feared that spina bifida would prevent her from living a full life. Learn how our fetal care experts made sure she had no limits.
Emilio: The First Fetoscopic Myelomeningocele Repair at Children’s Hospital Colorado
Emilio and Katarina underwent the first fetoscopic MMC repair at Children’s Hospital Colorado and now they’re back home thriving.
Emma: Overcoming the Odds and Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Emma's family was given a poor prognosis when she was diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. See how our experts gave them hope and amazing care.
Evelyn: An Abdominal Condition and Eight Month Hospital Stay Doesn't Stop Her Smiles
Evelyn was born with a condition called omphalocele, a birth defect of the abdominal wall. She spent the first eight months of her life at Children’s Hospital Colorado, with seven of those months in the NICU.
Cecelia: Expert Care for Fetal Heart Block Before and After Birth
A fetal heart block diagnosis before birth changed everything for Cecelia’s family, from their perspective to where they live. See how our fetal cardiology experts helped.
Kendall: How the Center for Gait and Movement Analysis Got Her Back in the Game
Kendall faced twin-twin transfusion syndrome and right-side hemiplegia before she turned one. See how her family and our care team wouldn’t let her fall behind her peers.
Conley Twins: Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) Survivors and Best Buddies
See how our team helped Kenna and Zoey overcome twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome to develop a near telepathic connection.
Ambrose: Beating Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), and More
Ambrose faced a life-threatening congenital diaphragmatic hernia diagnosis, and that was not all he had to overcome. See how our fetal experts helped.
Charlotte: Surviving a Fetal Omphalocele and Finding Silver Linings
After an omphalocele diagnosis, our fetal care team helped Charlotte’s parents go from uncertain to joyful.
Eli: Living and Thriving with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)
Eli was given a 50% chance of surviving. See how he overcame the odds and is now thriving in the face of CDH.
Liam: Fetal Surgery for Myelomeningocele (MMC) Spina Bifida Repair
Read how the specialists at Children’s Colorado performed fetal surgery in utero to repair Liam’s myelomeningocele (MMC) spina bifida.
Ella: EXIT Procedure Saves Baby with Rare Fetal Tumor
Fetal specialists at the Colorado Fetal Care Center performed a complex EXIT procedure on baby Ella to remove a rare tumor before her birth. Learn about the surgery that saved her life.
Chase: A CDH Survivor Story
Chase was born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). Thanks to quick treatment at Children's Colorado, he went home after just 18 days. Read his story here.
Emily: An Impossible Choice and a Journey with CDH
Diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia in utero, Emily had less than a 20% chance of survival. Learn how the Colorado Fetal Care Center saved her.
Ava: CDH Diagnosis After Birth
Ava's congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) wasn't caught until after birth, but thanks to our fetal care team, she's thriving. Learn what it took.
Peyton: How Prenatal Spina Bifida Surgery Helped Avoid Brain Surgery
Peyton’s myeloschisis, the severest form of spina bifida, put her at risk for acute complications. Fetal surgery was her best chance at a positive outcome.
Joey and Paul: Surviving Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Learn about a family's will to beat twin to twin transfusion syndrome and how the Colorado Fetal Care Center team created a treatment plan to help Joey and Paul.
Maya and Maleia: Twins Battle TTTS and CHD
These twins, who first survived twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), continued to struggle before their birth. One of the twins was found to have congenital heart disease. After much difficulty, both girls are thriving.
Noah: Despite Lymphangioma Diagnosis, Fetal Surgery Gives Boy a Fighting Chance
Read how the Colorado Fetal Care Center gave Noah a fighting chance in the midst of his Lymphangioma diagnosis. Our fetal care team of specialists gave hope to this family.
Jack: One Family's Journey with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
After her unborn baby was diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia, mom Lindsay came to the Colorado Fetal Care Center. Find out how she felt about her experience.
Mila and Ciela: Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome Patients Saved by Laser
Nicole Shore had enough to worry about when she and her husband Ari found out they were having twins. She worried about what would happen after she delivered, not before. But when the contractions came on hard at 22 weeks, she worried. Nicole’s twins had developed twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS).
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