About Baby

Before you bring children into your home, you want to make sure it's a safe place. Here are some things to watch out for.

This birth defect in the spine and spinal cord happens early in pregnancy. The bones of the spine don't fully form around the spinal cord. This creates a gap where nerves push out from the spine. In severe cases, a sac holding part of the spinal cord comes out of the skin of the back.

This is a condition a baby is born with. It's caused by an extra bundle of genetic information, called a "chromosome," in the body's cells. Down syndrome affects the body and the brain.

When a baby is born, we cut the umbilical cord. It's the tube that connects the baby to the placenta. Blood in the umbilical cord has medical uses. We can collect and store it for future needs. We call this "cord blood banking."