How to Use neonatal in a Sentence

neonatal

adjective
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  • One is the state of neonatal care at a particular point in time.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2022
  • Mullen, a neonatal nurse, cared for Small's babies in the hospital.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Jones had to be kept in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at the hospital for at least a month.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 19 Nov. 2022
  • In total, five boys and two girls were killed while under Letby’s care in the neonatal ward.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • And on Long Island that same year, 15 neonatal nurses were pregnant at the same time.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 14 June 2023
  • River spent her first month of life in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2022
  • The baby only weighed one pound and needed to be admitted to the neonatal ICU.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
  • After Malti’s birth, the new parents had to go to the neonatal intensive care unit every day for the next three months.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The baby was born with crack in his system and was in the neonatal ICU, covered in tubes, tiny enough to fit into her cupped hands.
    — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Both babies spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Anna Werner Wernera@cbsnews.com, CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • The infant spent over 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit, but was home int time for Chopra's first Mother's Day as a mom.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
  • No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing.
    — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • In 2018, the hospital renamed its neonatal unit after him and his wife.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The sound of crunchy sequins precedes Genevie, a 26-year-old neonatal nurse from Baltimore.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Her babies spent nearly two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
    — Fox News, 30 June 2022
  • And in the study, neonatal mortality among Black mothers was 0.5% in the spontaneous conception group and 1.6% in the IVF group.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 21 Oct. 2022
  • What came next was a month-and-a-half stay for the babies in the neonatal intensive care unit, with limited visitors.
    — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
  • Their first child together, Malti spent over 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit before the couple was able to bring her home in May.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The neonatal ward where she’s being cared for is filled with cries of newborns, the beep of the medical machines that keep them alive, and the nearby thunder of Israeli airstrikes.
    — Raf Sanchez, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Doctors soon took the babies to the neonatal intensive care unit for further treatment.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
  • Audrey was born eight weeks early and spent a few days in neonatal intensive care after her birth.
    — Caitlyn Hitt, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Starting at 21 to 22 weeks of pregnancy, some babies born alive are cared for in the neonatal intensive-care unit and grow up to be healthy children and adults.
    — The Editors, National Review, 6 Sep. 2022
  • When Maya Conner of Eugene gave birth to her son eight years ago, Braxton stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first days of his life due to fluid in his lungs.
    — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Conner said her sister’s son was born prematurely at 24 weeks and has been in the neonatal intensive care unit for the first six months of his life.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2022
  • And yet, for the first time, the St. Joe neonatal intensive care unit headed into Mother's Day weekend caring for six sets of twins.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2022
  • On the fifth week, when Carter was stable enough to leave the neonatal intensive care unit, Alicia returned, but foster parents from Akron were the ones who took him home.
    — Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
  • After her birth, Malti spent over 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit due to health complications.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 June 2023
  • Coleman held Denver before the newborn was sent to a neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Even the neonatal scute, a layer that grew before the turtle hatched, had signs of nuclear history passed down from its mother.
    — Celia Ford, WIRED, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Senegal has been rocked by a number of recent health care scandals, including a fire last year at the neonatal unit of a hospital in Linguere, in the country's north.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 27 May 2022

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