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Living for two - the grief hides deep inside you

Living for Two: Twin Loss Stories is a 2023 book written by journalist and triplet Pia Rockström. It explores the profound and unique grief experienced by surviving twins, reflecting the feeling of some, of having to live both for oneself and one's lost sibling. I connected with Pia after we met through the Lone Twin Network and read her book including 20 stories of twin loss at birth, in childhood and in adulthood from around the world. All of the stories are beautiful and touching, and I asked
Food for thought

Breastmilk protein in cows and humans

The process of evolution resulted in breastmilk perfectly suited to the survival and developmental needs of the newborn of that species. Mammalian milk composition varies during the day, and over the days, weeks and months of breastfeeding. All species vary in macronutrient, micronutrient and bionutrient composition. Bionutrients (also known as immuno-nutrients, or functional components) are key to many of the benefits of getting the ‘right’ breastmilk, and there are 1000s of them - we’ll get to
Food for thought

Gandhi & neonatal nutrition

Gandhi is universally admired and respected across the world as one the most inspirational political figures campaigning for independence and civil rights in both South Africa and India; lands that were colonised and ‘stolen from’ for centuries by British rule. By chance I am in India today, on Gandhi’s birthday (Jayanti). I’ve been privileged to present at workshops and give lectures at conferences and NICUs, and been invited to join ward rounds and discuss various aspects of neonatal nutrition
99nicu News

99NICU - the online neonatal community reclaimed

We are approaching the 20 year anniversary of 99NICU and while thinking about our journey, we also came to explore the wider scope, including the feeling of a lost online neonatal community. When I first helped build 99NICU in 2006, it came from a very simple need: a safe place to talk about neonatal care with other health care professionals. Not just to exchange information, like over email, but create a community space to think, question and learn together from real clinical experience. At the
The Weight of Small Things

When the Answers Arrives Before the Questions

There's a scene that keeps coming back to me since I heard Professor Madalena Patrício, of the University of Lisbon's Faculty of Medicine, speak about artificial intelligence in health professions education. It isn't a scene from her talk, exactly — it's from Pluribus, a series I watched recently that, somehow, found a new way to be read in light of what she said. In the show, a signal from space carries the code of a virus that fuses almost all of humanity into a single consciousness. At first
Department of Brilliant Ideas

It's not all about motherhood in maternity wards and NICUs

Sweden is a good country for parents and when it comes to becoming a father, I think our society is becoming more and more "inclusive". Illustrated by the welcoming photo outside the maternity ward, an infant - with the father in the background. In our Karolinska NICUs we are "rooming-in" parents in family rooms, where the baby is taken care of by the parents as much as possible. We promote the presence of both parents. When only one parent is staying over, it is not uncommon that the fathe
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Scrutinizing the near-final programme for EBNEO 2013...

I am just reading the yet unofficial and near-final programme for the 2nd EBNEO-conference, scheduled 13-16 March 2013 in Egypt. Topics will (probably) include: Mode of delivery and morbidity in the preterm infant? Developing a cheap surfactant for the third world – planning stages of a large RCT Survival without disability to age 5 years after neonatal caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity Resuscitation of the preterm infant Implementation of evidence based neonatology -
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99nicu housekeeping - 11000 meters above Turkey

Believe it or not, but I am sitting on 11000 meters in a jumbo-jet, on my way to Dubai. I fly Lufthansa - mit Internetz, to my surprise! 1 hour for 10 euros, I simply could not resist to try it It's not a superfast connection but enough to do some 99nicu house-keeping (i.e. validating a handful of new members), taking care of the latest emails and checking the news. Looking forward to this trip, planned since long. But, I nearly missed the plane in Stockholm, I jumped on the airport expr
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Time for a Tour to the Arabian Peninsula. PDA/epi-lectures guaranteed!

I will go on tour to the Arabian Peninsula, and lecture about PDA diagnosis and treatment, 25-29/5. My ambition is to share news and views on ductal problems, from my dual perspective as neonatologist and clinical epidemiologist. It will be my first visit to the region, and I am looking forward to it very much, not only for my wish to go on a guided tour of the Desert . First of all, I hope to meet many of you, as I know that many neonatal staff in the Arabic countries are active members
Department of Brilliant Ideas

I did technical maintenance. And survived.

During the last few days you might have noticed that 99nicu has been offline sometimes, due to technical maintenance. I needed to upgrade the software that 99nicu.org is based upon (vBulletin), and also need to compile new versions of the iOS and Android app. Since we started, I have done software installations and upgrades (auto-didactic with computers) but the more complex these softwares become, the more I sweat before I do this technical maintenance. And, I also feel kind of responsible
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Review articles of EBNEO topics now online at Acta Paediatrica

The conference Evidence-based Neonatology (EBNEO) in Stockholm 2011 was much about the 99nicu community going IRL. I am very happy that we managed to launch the event. And, as you may know already, there will be a 2nd EBNEO conference, 13-16 March 2013, in Egypt. But today I'd just like to tell everyone that review articles of topics presented at the 1st EBNEO in Stockholm are now available on-line, published in a digital supplement in Acta Paediatrica. All articles are available in free f
Department of Brilliant Ideas

the 99nicu iPhone app - soon official :)

The 99nicu iPhone app has just been approved by Apple and is now available on iTunes store. Free of charge and free from ads, of course. One nice feature is that posts from the app is marked "Posted from iPhone app" Here's the link to iTunes. On your iPhone, search in iTunes store for "99nicu" and you'll find it.
Department of Brilliant Ideas

the first 99nicu app - for telephones on Android (-s)

I should make this announcement later but cannot refrain from telling you half the story now There is now a 99nicu app, at least for telephones running Android. Click here to download it from Android market. One nice feature is... when you post from the app, your posts get marked "Posted from Android app". Please try! (you may wonder about the second half of the story... yes, we have an iphone app in pipeline... But the process to have it approved by Apple (Almighty) is more compli
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Happy Holidays!

I'd just like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! And, also thank all the many people sharing their expertise in the forums, both as questions and as comments. During 2011, we had some very positive emails from members telling how discussions here changed practise (and probably outcomes too). Which makes me believe even stronger in this kind of crowdsourcing. For next year, we will announce some new and cool features, ma
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Work with me!

I work at a Karolinska unit located at Danderyd Hospital, with 10.000 deliveries per year, the largest delivery unit in Sweden. In fact, almost 10% of ALL Swedish babies are born here (110.000 Swedes are born/year)! We have several vacant positions for qualified neonatologists. Work with me! Applicants must speak Swedish or other Scandinavian languages. PM me for more info or email the head of the unit bjorn.westrup@karolinska.se Click here for more info in Swedish, and here for
Department of Brilliant Ideas

The Evidence-based Neonatology conference - we will be back!

Ten days have passed since the conference Evidence-based Neonatology closed, and all speakers and delegates travelled back to their 35 countries. We have not yet received the results from the course evaluation, but I believe the conference was a great success! At least, many delegates and speakers told us that it was! I hope we will not disappoint the many delegates who asked for the 2nd EBNEO conference... (click here to subscribe to email updates from www.ebneo.org) &
Department of Brilliant Ideas

EBNEO tweets, photos and web cast! Open access :)

You can now view photos from EBNEO on flickr.com and also see the lectures on the web, open for all! The link to flickr is http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebneo, and the EBNEO web cast is online at http://www.webbtv.nu/ebneo2011. The web cast will be online during one year, till 1 June 2012. The web cast is available free of charge, but viewers need to submit their email address to see it. Please feel free to share the links to the photos and the web cast to your neonatal
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Five great years. (or, five years checking emails)

Sometimes, taking a new direction make the unexpected happen. When we started 99nicu in May 2006, I did not think much about the long-term perspective. I just came up with "a brilliant idea" and convinced a few colleagues that we should start something good and useful. For the world. Ever since I was a medical student, working with international student exchange, I had believed in collaboration outside-the-local-box. When we meet, we get friends. And, friends help each other. During these

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