Dalia EL-Prince served as the Executive Director of the Fetal Health Foundation. Recently I joined the Fetal Health Foundation to offer hope to unborn babies and help families who are faced with the loss of their child during pregnancy or after delivery. Though I...
Answers to these questions and more from the Fetal Health Foundation and Children’s Hospital Colorado. What is the Zika virus? How do you get the Zika virus? If a pregnant woman has traveled to an affected area and is concerned about the Zika virus, what should she do? Should she get tested, and if so, where is the best place to start?
The Zika Virus and Microcephaly are in the news recently. Many of us wonder why we haven't heard of it before, and what we can do to protect ourselves and our family. One of our readers, Emily Maynard, put together an easy-to-understand infographic about the virus....
With The Great Candy Run 5k races series taking place in Minneapolis, Seattle, and Denver, 2016 is shaping up to be the sweetest year ever for our Foundation’s flagship benefit.
We're thrilled to announce our new magazine! Connexions is published annually by the Fetal Health Foundation in order to bring together the many realms surrounding a fetal syndrome diagnosis. The magazine connects doctors and fetal centers, updating them on the latest...
“What should we do now?” parents wonder. Fetal Health Founder Lonnie Somers shares what he’s learned about the time after a fetal diagnosis.
Imagine a doctor saying, "Your baby may not survive." Time is short. You search for information, and when you find it, you can't be sure it is reliable. That was our situation 13 years ago. I remember all too well searching for hope, information, and support for...
Aran Hissam is a member of the Fetal Health Foundation Board. Before joining our organization, she channeled her experience with a fetal syndrome, non-immune fetal hydrops, to her work with the Brianna Marie Foundation. The Fetal Health Foundation's Research Grant...
Last November I challenged friends, family and really all Fetal Health Foundation supporters to make a year-end donation that would ultimately serve as a challenge to me to run one mile for every ten dollars donated. I had hoped to enter into 2016 with a monumental...
The Fetal Health Foundation continues to receive inquiries about the Zika virus and a possible connection to a fetal condition, microcephaly. Dr. Anna G. Euser is coordinating the Zika virus efforts for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Doctors at the Colorado Institute for...
After giving birth to twins who survived Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome, Talitha McGuinness joined with Lonnie and Michelle Somers to help further efforts to save babies with fetal syndromes. We asked her to share her story. Our twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome...
Fetal Health Foundation's former Executive Director, Dalia EL-Prince shares her story of coping after the loss of her baby in 2003. "Does it get better?" Today I was asked, "Does it get better after the loss of your baby? Does it?" It's a question I often struggle to...