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Dr. Michel Mikhael

CHOC neonatologist’s granddaughters graduate from Small Baby Unit

January 26, 2021

family photo after the NICU, mom, dad and twin girls

Cora and Ellie were born at just 24 weeks, 3 days. They spent 136 days in CHOC’s Small Baby Unit before they were healthy enough to go home.

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One family, two NICU stays

November 12, 2019

Each year, 1 in 10 babies in the U.S. are born prematurely. For the Cushings, that statistic is two in two. Both sons had stays in the NICU.

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