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Do you want to join the 99nicu Team?! We need more people in the 99nicu Team and search for dedicated neonatal staff working for better neonatal world! Give a little of your time and become a 99nicu ambassador. As such, your main mission is to facilitate and moderate discussions, but also participate in the future development of 99nicu. You will meet new colleagues and friends from all over the world. 99nicu is a true hobby project for the current team; funding has always been an issue and therefore there won't be any monetary benefits. But we don't keep 99nicu going because of money, but because we believe that 99nicu is a good idea in principal, i.e. crowd-sour…

We have just updated our forum software. One of the fanzy new features is a special "skin" for smartphones. Browse 99nicu on your Android phone or Iphone. Reading forums, posting new threads and comments is much easier from your phone now (unless you use Tapatalk, which also works well). Please try it and post your feedback below.

We have added a new forum "Neonatology in the News". As you know, reports and debates about neonatal medicine are not uncommon in regular newspapers, on TV etc. We felt that 99nicu should have a forum dedicated to discussions about such headlines, to bring these discussions also to our professional level. After discussions where to put this forum, we decided to house it on our Message Board. As for all forums, only in-logged members have permissions to post there. The direct link: http://www.99nicu.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?145-Neonatology-in-the-News

Since the earliest discussions that led to the opening of 99nicu.org in 2006, the vision of 99nicu has been to create a community for neonatal staff around the world. Regardless of backgrounds, working conditions, political contexts etc. Many people, including myself, spend many hours to “house-keep” 99nicu and we all do this for free, because we believe in the principal idea behind the project. Still, invoices are facts of life for a web site. Servers, software, domain names, and technical support services need to be funded somehow. Funding of 99nicu has always been an issue. I covered costs initally (... believing in good ideas...) and between 2008 and …

Today we have become 3333 members! Special welcome to dr Lazarte! Our aim is to become 4000 members till our five-year anniversary, 11 May 2011. Share this link with your friends: http://www.99nicu.org/forum/register.php

Francesco Cardona (fcardona), MD, working at Medical University Vienna in Austria, is the latest member of the 99nicu Team. Francesco Cardona is the head of our Facebook fan page. In addition to training in pediatrics and neonatology, he is enrolled in a MSc for Epidemiology program at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. We're glad you have joined us too! Welcome! The 99nicu Team currently has the following members: * Alexander Rakow, Sweden * Stefan Johansson, Sweden * Habib Alam Raza, Saudi Arabia * Hesham Abdel-Hady, Egypt * Selvan Rathinasamy, India * Francesco Cardona, Austria

We have opened a new forum dedicated to discussions about breast milk and breastfeeding. The new forum is sorted (as a sub-forum) under the Nutrition forum, here! Breastfeeding is the superior form of infant feeding, actively promoted internationally by the World Health Organisation, WHO. WHO writes on its web site www.who.int For infants in NICU settings, also preterm infants, breast feeding should be a goal at the time of discharge. Promotion of breastfeeding in NICU settings is effective and probably cost-effective, according to this report: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19728934 Below: the international symbol for breast feeding.

FYI - a new record has been set in our web statistics panel... In September we had 8001 people browsing 99nicu (i.e. unique visitors), making 20097 visits and viewing 121307 pages, consuming 4.87 GB of bandwidth. Not bad for a hobby!

The forums are rocketing in activity right now but we want to turbo-boost it even more! In the 2010 Lottery, the winner will get an Ipad (16GB, Wifi), worth 499 USD. On the 1st of December 2010, we will randomly select the Happy Member among: - Supporting members,regardless of number of forum posts (sign up here!) - members who have posted 8 times or more during the time period 20 May - 20 November (The Swedish members of the 99nicu Team are excluded from the Lottery)

After the recent updates of our software, we could not resist to add the latest feature... and offer you to start blogging at 99nicu! As a member you can start your own blog and write comments in blogs written by other members. Unregistered visitors can only read blog entries and comments. You can subscribe to new blog entries by email, just click here. The blogs also have their own RSS-feed for convenient updates: http://feeds.feedburner.com/99nicublogs If you want to explore the blogs right away, first read the attached blogmanual how to join the Authors group first! Please consider that the 99nicu forum rules also apply to the blogs*. If you need as…