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Hydrocele

A hydrocele is a swelling in the scrotum, the thin sac that holds the testicles. Babies born prematurely are more likely to have a hydrocele. A com...

Newborn Jaundice

Newborn jaundice is a common and usually harmless condition in which your new baby's skin and eyes look yellow. Jaundice typically shows up 2 or 3 ...

What is Biliary Atresia?

If your baby has biliary atresia, one of the first things you'll notice is that their skin and the whites of their eyes look yellow. Jaundice is ve...

Baby Maintenance: Baths, Nails, and Hair

Using a baby bath seat is no assurance that your baby will be safe in the bathtub. Your baby doesn't need a bath every day -- two to three times a ...

Umbilical Cord Care

The umbilical cord is the tube-like structure that carries food and oxygen from a mother to their baby while pregnant. If your baby has a messy bow...

If Your Baby Has Group B Strep

Group B strep is a bacterial infection babies can catch from their mother during childbirth or pick up in their first few months of life. Group str...

Breast Problems After Breastfeeding

Your breasts may or may not return to their pre-breastfeeding size or shape. It's a common cosmetic breast problem after breastfeeding, but it isn'...

What is Life Support?

These life support methods include CPR, which keeps blood and oxygen flowing throughout the body, electric shocks (called defibrillation) to get th...

What to Expect When Your Loved One is Dying

If seeing and talking to someone who isn't there makes the person who's dying happier, you don't need to try to convince them that they aren't real...

What is Hospice Care?

During an illness that is terminal, you or your loved ones may talk with your doctor and decide the treatments meant to cure or slow a disease are ...

Getting Your Affairs in Order

Most of us don't like to think about drawing up a will, signing 'do not resuscitate' orders, or planning funeral services. Designating someone to h...

Advance Directives

Whether you write a living will, choose a medical power of attorney, or both, you will need to make those decisions legally binding, in writing. Th...