How to Use neonatal in a Sentence

neonatal

adjective
Definition of neonatalnext
  • Marijuana use in pregnancy has been linked to such adverse outcomes for the baby as lower birthweight, preterm birth and higher admission rates to neonatal intensive care units.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 22 July 2024
  • The first few weeks of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit were tough.
    — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • At birth, the baby was in the neonatal intensive care unit for about a week.
    — cleveland, 2 Jan. 2022
  • One is the state of neonatal care at a particular point in time.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2022
  • Mullen, a neonatal nurse, cared for Small's babies in the hospital.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Jones had to be kept in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the hospital for at least a month.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 19 Nov. 2022
  • In total, five boys and two girls were killed while under Letby’s care in the neonatal ward.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • And on Long Island that same year, 15 neonatal nurses were pregnant at the same time.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • The baby was small and had to spend nearly two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Noam Levey, NPR, 9 May 2024
  • River spent her first month of life in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2022
  • The baby only weighed one pound and needed to be admitted to the neonatal ICU.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
  • After Malti’s birth, the new parents had to go to the neonatal intensive care unit every day for the next three months.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The baby was born with crack in his system and was in the neonatal ICU, covered in tubes, tiny enough to fit into her cupped hands.
    — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Both babies spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Anna Werner Wernera@cbsnews.com, CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • The infant spent over 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit, but was home int time for Chopra's first Mother's Day as a mom.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
  • No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing.
    — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • In 2018, the hospital renamed its neonatal unit after him and his wife.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The sound of crunchy sequins precedes Genevie, a 26-year-old neonatal nurse from Baltimore.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • My mom was a cardiac nurse for many years before working in neonatal care and then geriatrics.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
  • After 21 days of receiving medical care in the neonatal intensive care unit, which involved a procedure to help the healing process, Adler was well enough for his parents to take him home.
    — Sarah Title, Peoplemag, 13 June 2024
  • He was born six weeks early, and ended up needing to spend about 12 days in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — USA Today, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Her babies spent nearly two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
    — Fox News, 30 June 2022
  • Casen would also struggle with infections, and spent the first 154 days of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Nick Maslow, PEOPLE.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • And in the study, neonatal mortality among Black mothers was 0.5% in the spontaneous conception group and 1.6% in the IVF group.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
  • What came next was a month-and-a-half stay for the babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, with limited visitors.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
  • Their first child together, Malti spent over 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit before the couple was able to bring her home in May.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The neonatal ward where she’s being cared for is filled with cries of newborns, the beep of the medical machines that keep them alive, and the nearby thunder of Israeli airstrikes.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The behavioral health and neonatal units were shut down days earlier.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 11 May 2024
  • The quadruplets are still in the neonatal intensive care unit and are set to go home to their parents and two brothers, ages 3 and 18 months, later this summer.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Doctors soon took the babies to the neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 July 2023

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