Moms & Babies
Organised by The Childrens Hospital of Buffalo FoundationOn May 21, Oishei Children’s Hospital is offering a new way for you to support our mission of helping kids get back to being kids.
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The day you deliver your baby is a day you'll never forget. Oishei Children's Hospital specializes in making childbirth a special experience FOR all women by offering services throughout the entire birth journey – from preconception to antepartum care, including services FOR high-risk mothers. With the region’s largest and most advanced neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), OCH is one of the safest and best places FOR infant acute care.
OCH NICU by the numbers:
• 18 days – the average length of NICU stay in 2022
• 198 NICU babies brought to OCH
• 868 NICU stays in 2022
• 3,687 babies born at OCH in 2022
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Jacki was initially admitted to OCH on Valentine’s Day. The first couple weeks in the hospital, she says she felt defeated. But after a couple more weeks of getting to know the nurses, she knew she could get through a tough first pregnancy.
Exactly two months later, on April 14, her twins finally arrived. While Merrick Fox was able to head home, her brother Ryan Caulder needed to remain in the NICU to get stronger before joining the rest of the family.
It’s a wild ride, but we made it,” Jacki says. “I’m just very thankful that we had the opportunity to be somewhere that could help so much.”