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NICU Nutrition - can a sub 1000g baby grow on breastmilk alone?

This is my first post. I may be slow to keep posting here as I also focus on the Butterfly Project and work with parents. But, please stick with me, and help me share what you know, and your insights on NICU nutrition, to the Global Majority. I want to share content for all things NICU nutrition related especially with a view for global collaboration. I want YOU to help me make a difference to the sick newborns in LMICs. I want to learn how best to translate knowledge to, and share good practi
99nicu News

99NICU Becomes a Partner of the CEPAS Conference 28-31 Oct 2026

We are pleased to announce that the 99NICU Community has become an official partner of the CEPAS Conference, 28-31 Oct 2026. CEPAS is an international conference dedicated to advancing knowledge and collaboration in neonatal and pediatric care, a new biennial meeting of the European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP) and the European Society for Paediatric Research (ESPR). In addition, the Global Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (GFCNI) is co-organiser. Through this partnership, 99NICU will
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
99nicu News

New Translation Features: Neonatal care has no borders, and neither should our 99nicu community

Dear 99nicu friends, Some of you might have already noticed our 99nicu page has been going through small improvements. We keep thinking about how to make this page more friendly for you, our users. What would it take to make us a page you visit often, or maybe even your starting page? Last week I implemented an RSS feed with the newest papers in neonatal medicine. As 99nicu, we cannot guarantee you access to full texts, but at least we can show you new research being published every single day—f
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Baby born in Berlin. MRI-picture and webcam.

In case you have missed this... Researchers at the Charité university hospital in Berlin, Germany, had (convinced?) a pregnant woman to deliver her baby in an MRI camera! Spectacular experiment! Creating buzz and headlines! If you ask me, this is a great combination of great PR work and serious research. Everyone involved gets fame and cred (also the baby I hope), and the research group will be granted to take their work to new heights. We need to learn more about the birthday, pr
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Babies, the Swedish Prince Carl Philip, research and myself

Two years ago, I wrote about a large project that I initiated with another colleague and a "premiee"-parent, "Small child foundation" (Swe. Lilla barnet fond). The idea was to create a nation-wide charity foundation for research about newborn babies and their future health. Similar to March of Dimes. The "Lilla barnets fond" was officially founded late 2008, and since then we have worked hard (as volunteers) with strategic issues, including fund-raising and PR. This is a follow-up report wit
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Cognitive surplus - the context for 99nicu

Cognitive surplus. Have not heard about it? Not me either until I read this article in Wired. Now I am reading the book "Cognitive surplus, creativity and generosity in a connected age". Clay Shirky outlines very interesting ideas. In fact, he explains why 99nicu has happened The equation is: Educated people, some free time, a motivation to share, the social nature of man and modern tools, these factors aggregate the cognitive surplus and create communities. Like lolcats on ICanHasCh
Department of Brilliant Ideas

NIDCAP (Neonatologist In Duty-Darkness Cannot Assess the Pager)

Friday afternooon. Had just come home from holiday and rang up my friend and colleague. For a chat. He was still at work. The doctor on the on-call-schedule had not showed up. Mistake, but still! Tempted by the "short notice bonus" for the night shift (money can drive me to do things too...), I volunteered, went to the NICU, changed clothes and was handed over the new pager. The new pager - a massively bulky something! (new and modern technical things tends to get smaller and smaller. May
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Doctors on social networks - professionalism in the virtual world

When 99nicu opened in 2006, we were adopters of the main idea with Internet, the power of dialogue and sharing. Why not use that for professionals? And, we saw lots of possibilities and the sky was the limit. Today, professional social networks directed to staff in health care are becoming increasingly common and popular, and some of them have grown huge! Like www.sermo.com. (If you want to read an over-view of the largest sites, read this blog post by David Isaacson, community manager at d
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Motivation, cognitive surplus and 3000+ members!

In my real-world-job as managing editor of the Swedish Medical Journal, I got an email from a reader regarding one of my editorials. I had written about general principles in the world of sports and that the world of health care have lessons to learn. For example, that the degree of success depends on the extent of practise, preparation, team work etc. (btw, greetings to Spain being World Cup Champs 2010, you're worth it ) Anyway, this reader posted a video clip about how we feel motivation
Department of Brilliant Ideas

99nicu - the first four years

Four years ago, I got an idea to start an Internet community for neonatal staff. At that time I was a member of a Swedish Mac-computer community and had realized that web-based professional networks can become great resources. (BTW, this is pre-historical times of today's Social Media-hype.) I convinced a few of my friends in the NICU at Karolinska to spend MUCH time to set the whole thing up... The 11th of May 2006 was the official opening! It is hard to summarize the development during
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Neonatal Doc - where are you?

I don't read many blogs, but I follow The Premie Experiment (http://thepreemieexperiment.blogspot.com/) and Science-Based Medicine (http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/) Still, there is one neonatal blog that I certainly miss, Neonatal Doc (http://neonataldoc.blogspot.com/) Whoever this person is, I would like to read more! If this whoever person reads this, please email me personally at stefan.johansson@ki.se would love to hear more from you and to offer you a anonymeous blog space here
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Ipad - where are you?!

I live in Sweden. That's a non-Ipad-land. Probably for a long time. (2011?) I just browsed several of the reviews from Over There, and even Walt Mossberg at Wall Street Journal likes it. And David Pogue at NYT wrote two reviews, one for "techies" and one for everyone else! Come on Jobs - get the Ipad localised in Swedish (with åäö etc) and send me one! Video review.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y7_3H5B7DQ
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Hackers - meet us if you dare.

We had an unpleasant experience last week. Our account at the web host was hacked. Even, badly hacked! This is what probably happened: I added a subdomain years ago and played around with a Wordpress installation (that's the kind of thing you can do just for fun, or do I need to see someone ) . I left this wp-installation and thought it was resting in peace, not aware of the bomb our account was keeping within its boundaries. Apparently, hackers sniffed this insta
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Mad about Mad Men

I hardly ever follow TV-series. Hospital hours are not very compatible with that. In addition, I am boring enough to spare my TV sessions for News and Sports. During the previous decade, I can only remember that I saw Sopranos. I got a DVD-box for Christmas from my wife. Mad Men season 1. Not having heard about this series, I was blank to what to expect. Now, we have both become Mad Men junkies... For those of you who don't know about this TV-series (as I did not): the
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Major make-over to be expected...

I would just like to leak some 99nicu info... the software that we use for this site has been realized in a new version that looks and behaves quite differently compared to the current version. This means that the outlook of 99nicu will/may change in the future (early next year). More good news... a professional webmaster has volonteered to help us with 99nicu.org.
Department of Brilliant Ideas

Radiology around the world

I would just like to share a unusual collaboration, Sweden-Australia. There's a Swedish radiologist working in Australia. Due to the shortage of pediatric radiologists in Stockholm, this person in Australia is "on call" sometimes, i.e. x-rays images are sent by wire (Internet) to Australia, and we get the response back. It's quite a good idea I think. I mean, night time in Sweden is day time in Australia. I wished I could be doing night shift in the day tim

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