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  • Advocacy, Education, Policy

NEC Awareness Resolutions

We chose May to be NEC Awareness Month because we will only build a world ...
Mother nursing newborn in the hospital
  • Education, Recently Diagnosed

How to Optimize the Use of Mother’s Own Milk in the NICU

In the NICU, mother’s breast milk is medicine for very premature infants. Mother’s breast milk ...
Micah Life Celebration
  • Bereaved, Education

10 Things for Bereaved Parents to Know

Created by bereaved parents for bereaved parents. What we wish someone had told us when ...
Jenn and Micah
  • Education, Family Story, Recently Diagnosed

10 Things All NICU Parents Need To Know

Created by parents of NICU babies impacted by NEC: what we wish we had known ...
baby in the NICU
  • Education, Recently Diagnosed

I Gave My Baby Breast Milk. Why Did She Develop NEC?

This story challenges the assumption that breast milk alone prevents NEC. It highlights the complexities ...
Jenn and Micah
  • Advocacy, Bereaved, Education

9 Things You Need to Know About NEC

When my son Micah was six weeks old, I thought he had overcome his fiercest ...
Jennifer Canvasser (Davis, CA), and Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry
  • Advocacy, Education

CA Declares May 17 NEC Awareness Day

Sacramento, California – The Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC) Society is grateful to announce that California has ...
2021 NEC Symposium- Virtual Session picture of everyone on the virtual call
  • Education, Symposium

2021 NEC Symposium- Virtual Sessions

The NEC Society presented the 2021 NEC Virtual Sessions in partnership with Cincinnati Children's and ...
A lab technician wearing protective gear pours human milk into bottles in a milk bank processing room.
  • Education

Donor Milk Is Still Safe in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Dr. Erin Hamilton Spence, Medical Director of the Mother’s Milk Bank of North Texas, confirmed ...
Speaker on stage at 2019 NEC Symposium- University of Michigan
  • Education, Symposium

2019 NEC Symposium- University of Michigan.

The NEC Society presented the NEC Symposium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2 – 5, ...