Interest in cord blood began in 1988, when a 5-year-old boy suffering a rare genetic disease was successfully treated with cord blood from his newborn sister. This extraordinary result gave birth ...

Of course, that’s true of their first “real” period — but some newborn baby girls have a “mini-period,” and although it can be unnerving to see blood in your baby’s diaper, doctors ...

When a newborn doesn’t have enough vitamin K, it puts them at risk for something called vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB). This means that if the baby bleeds, the blood can’t clot enough to ...

Hope Juarez, who was 6 pounds, 2 ounces, had lost about 80 percent of her blood in a fetal-maternal hemorrhage and her hemoglobin level was 3.8; an average baby should be between 10 and 15.

Newborn jaundice is a yellowing of a baby’s skin and eyes. A common condition, it can occur when babies have a high level of bilirubin, a yellow pigment produced during the breakdown of red ...