How to Use neonatal in a Sentence

neonatal

adjective
  • At one point, their thoughts drifted to the neonatal unit.
    al, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The first few weeks of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit were tough.
    Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Teri Killough, 51, has been a neonatal nurse for more than 20 years.
    Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 8 Mar. 2021
  • At birth, the baby was in the neonatal intensive care unit for about a week.
    cleveland, 2 Jan. 2022
  • One is the state of neonatal care at a particular point in time.
    New York Times, 24 June 2022
  • Their son, Jax, was born at 30 weeks and spent six weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Doug Ferguson, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2019
  • In the neonatal intensive care unit, the lights were dimmed, as usual.
    Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Mullen, a neonatal nurse, cared for Small's babies in the hospital.
    John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The baby had to spend 45 days in a neonatal intensive care unit.
    Katheryn Houghton, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Vivian spent the next three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
  • 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
  • The baby was small and had to spend nearly two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Noam Levey, NPR, 9 May 2024
  • River spent her first month of life in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2022
  • In Week 23, the Navarros met with a specialist in neonatal medicine.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Lastly, there's the rare neonatal lupus, which is not a true form of lupus.
    Azmia Magane, Allure, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Weighing just 2 pounds and 11 ounces, she was whisked off to the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2020
  • The baby only weighed one pound and needed to be admitted to the neonatal ICU.
    James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Thompson spent the first part of her life in the neonatal intensive care unit, cared for by nurses.
    Caroline Catherman, Orlando Sentinel, 3 July 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
  • They're being cared for by staff in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Leah Asmelash and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Home to the neonatal intensive care unit, the third floor will have a softer palette of blues and yellow.
    Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Her cousin, who was working a shift that night as a neonatal intensive care nurse, walked in.
    Carol Marbin Miller, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Jayden was born with fluid on her lungs and had to spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    cincinnati.com, 7 May 2021
  • The cub, who had her first neonatal exam on March 3, weighed three pounds at birth and 14.3 pounds during her exam.
    Chris Perkins, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Both babies spent time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    Anna Werner Wernera@cbsnews.com, CBS News, 17 June 2022
  • Last week, an inquiry began into circumstances at the Countess of Chester Hospital, which employed the former neonatal nurse.
    Katherine Hignett, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
  • The damage meant that some hospitals in the area—including one with a large neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)—were temporarily cut off from public water.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 14 Oct. 2024

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