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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
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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
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Our Global Village Is Calling — Will You Show Up?

How long have you been a member of 99nicu? A year? Five years? Longer than some of your colleagues have been qualified? You might be surprised how far back this community goes. Our 99nicu community has more than 7,000 members from 76 countries. We have been around longer than Facebook has been in Europe, and almost as long as Twitter has existed at all — and despite being "old school", we have persevered. Many predicted that forums would disappear once social media took over. But looking at wher
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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
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Why We're Asking You to Log In

TL;DR: What's Changed and Why You might have noticed while browsing 99nicu recently: reading the full discussions now requires you to be logged in. The first post of any thread remain visible to everyone, like the news updates and feeds. But to read replies and join the conversation, you'll need to log in as a member. We know this adds a step. Here's why we're doing it, and how we're working to make it worthwhile. ________________________________________ Why This Matters? For 20 years, 99nicu i

Kafka on the Shore - Nb. 1 summer holiday book

I recently read an article about Haruki Murakami, a Japanese novelist. I had never heard of him before but this man is a literature "Mega-star"! (Which tells more about me than about the fame of Murakami) While reading about Murakami, I felt this is a good person. We had things in common! Integrity. Sense of humour. Wife's always right. Likes jogging and vinyl records. And Twin Peaks. So, I bought his book "Kafka on the Shore" to bring on our summer holiday trip. I have only read the fir

Babies online!

"Get real - get online" - that seems to apply also to newborn infants! Our hospital (with the largest number of newborns/year, in Sweden at least) as adopted an increasingly popular feature - web-babies! There's a camera installed below the roof in the waiting room for the doctors health check - parents can just put their newborn baby below it, press the "click" button and then the "get online" button. Good or bad... I guess, not too bad anyway http://www.ds.se/Web/NormalPage____42

Parenthood - a human right?

Most of us want to become parents. But, is it a human right to reproduce? Some people may argue in favour, but I am not sure I would. Despite the importance of reproduction itself (for all species, incl mammalians like Homo Sapiens), nothing can be taken for granted. In neonatal medicine we know that normality is not a 100% state, sometimes the other side of the coin shows up too. Generally, I would argue that we regard expecting and having children in a more respectful way. At l

Blogging, the art of... presence

While biking home from work tonight I thought about my blogging habit, or, the lack of a blogging habit! I figured... blogging is the art of being present. And there has not been much time for x-tras the last few weeks. I have been heavily involved in the update of the forum software (as you may have noticed... soon we will officially announce a lot of new features...), and clinical work has been demanding. But, as the summer is here, things tend to slow down and I hope to be more present.

MD, PhD...

I live through a kind of refractory post-doc phase. I defended my thesis last Friday (080418), managed pretty well , the party in the evening was wild and crazy , and I am about to adapt to the new life of being 'MD PhD'. I think I need to 'digest' what has happened. The last few nights, I have had some really strange dreams about things that did (and did not) happen that day. I guess Freud would be delighted to hear about this... It feels good to be back in business again. I am sure some

my Book, being printed right now...

Yesterday I approved the final proof for my thesis book "Very preterm birth - etiological aspects and short and long term outcomes". It is being printed right NOW and I will have a LARGE stack of books by next week. Will post a photograph. My latest years of hard work and psychological tension will have the ISBN nb 978-91-7357-498-3 If you spend a day in Stockholm on the 18th of April, welcome to my dissertation in Leksellsalen, Karolinska University Hospital. Grand thesis defence in the

My best /worst list of 2007.

This is my list for 2007... Best research experience... our brilliant study on twins, their birth weights and later risk of type-2 diabetes Worst research experience... four rejections of the manuscript of the brilliant study above... (NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Diabetes...) Best neonatal gossip... how the family Zlatan Ibrahimovic escaped the paparazzi photographers from the maternity ward... (well, this is from 2006, but I heard the story just recently) Most fascinating journey...

Rationality vs empathy

When speaking to people in non-medical professions about daily life in neonatal care, many people wonder how we cope with everything. This remarkable mix of well-baby-nursery problems, medical and ethical issues in the NICU... and all parents... and their fear, anger and happiness. I do not really know what to respond to such questions, but a bit of the answer might be related to how we combine a rational mind with empathic capabilities. I mean, when standing in front of a newly delivered 25

Busy... busy... unit...

Heard from a colleague of a rough weekend on-call, in a unit somewhere out there. Generally, for myself I like working really hard... I feel good after a bit of mental flow and manual work But the weekend I was told about must have been hard, as indicated by the number of pediatric subspecialties and units that were also involved: oncology surgery anestesiology nephrology radiology transfusion medicine infectious diseases ECMO... Reflections... professional networks are no

Grand Opening of the 99nicu Blogging Department

Welcome to the 99nicu Blogs! Given the possibilities to share experiences, thoughts and opinions through a blog, we could not resist to add the latest feature of the software (vBulletin) used for the 99nicu forums. As a 99nicu member, you can start your own neonatal blog here! And write comments in blogs written by other members. Read the announcement in the News forum, download the blog manual and... get started! PS. If you are unfamiliar with blogging, take a look at blogbasics.co

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