In August 2017, St. David’s Medical Center became the first Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Central Texas to earn a Level IV Neonatal Designation by the Texas Department of…
We often hear that “breast is best” when it comes to feeding your newborn, but it can sometimes be difficult for a tired new mother to maintain a diet that…
Physicians at the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery (TIRS), located at St. David’s North Austin Medical Center, recently performed the first robotic abdominal cerclage procedure. An abdominal cerclage procedure is…
Midwives have a long tradition of taking care of women throughout pregnancy and the birth of their babies. Prior to 1900, midwives delivered almost all babies born in the United…
(by Brandi Jalbert, RN, St. David’s North Austin Medical Center, Labor and Delivery) Breastfeeding your children has so many benefits for the infant, mother and our environment. A woman’s…
The words “cord blood” may not mean very much to you, but for some patients, those two words may mean the difference between life and death. Right now, you may…
