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Why Your Doctor Might Recommend a Planned C-Section

What are some of the reasons your doctor might recommend that you have a planned c-section? In this video, Dr ...

Patient Stories

Children’s Arrhythmia Clinic Helps Family Live Normally With Rare Heart Syndrome

Samantha Etheridge and her children have a rare, and potentially life-threatening disease called Brugada syndrome. ...

Patient Stories

Twenty-Five Years Post-Transplant, Jacques Remembers St. Louis Children's Hospital Experience

Kim Jacques recalls being a member of a very exclusive club as a teenager. Kim, who was 16 at the ...

Mom Docs

The COVID-19 Vaccine and Fertility

As a high-risk obstetrician at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine, I’ve been getting many questions from my ...

Mom Docs

Mold in Bath Toys

Have you ever tried squeezing some of the bath toys your child has used for a few weeks? Toys that ...

Mom Docs

Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and the COVID-19 Vaccine

Now that the COVID-19 vaccines are rolling out, pregnant and breastfeeding women may have questions about the benefits and risks ...

Mom Docs

Adjusting to Daylight Savings Time: Help Your Kid Spring Forward

Adjusting to daylight savings time can be difficult for young children … and their parents. As a parent, you have ...

Patient Stories

Special Patient Receives Special Care From Heart Center and Transplant Teams

Dale Robertson, born with a rare congenital heart defect, was among the first generation of patients to receive newly developed ...

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Caring for Young Hearts: MRIs for Children with Pacemakers and ICDs

St. Louis Children’s Hospital now offers “in-house” magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for children with pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators ...