The number of pregnant women with an opioid addiction more than quadrupled. A shift in recovery focus has turned to the babies — but mothers are often cut out of the picture. In an investigation with @Reveal, we take a look at the fight to save these mothers.

Full house for New Orleans kick-off of Express Yourself! Three-state partnership of perinatal quality collaboratives to target NICU disparities in mother's milk, supported by WKKF. Great work by @Meg_Parker_MD, Stacy Drury, Mobolaji Famuyide, and the NOLA NICU teams.

In 2017, we launched a program to improve care for infants born exposed to #opioids and for women in treatment for opioid use disorder during and after pregnancy. Learn more: mass.gov/service-detail…

Proud to have been part of this work, and that so much of it continues today, after grant funding. Truly, the best thing for babies CONTINUES to be their mothers. Munish Gupta Hannah Kloomok NeoQIC Massachusetts

Our AAP Neonatal SONPM Quality Measures conference starts! Many thanks to the task force members that made this happen, and all our partners and SONPM members that joined today for important conversations on neonatal quality measurement.

Strong representation from the #neoEBM twitter community at Neonatal Quality at #HotTopicsNeo2019. Register today to hear QI wisdom (LIVE!) from: Munish Gupta Jochen Profit @Meg_Parker_MD Susan Hwang Jonathan Swanson @hckap: hottopicsinneonatology.org/Agenda.html  #ebneoad

CDC's Rear Admiral Wanda Barfield MD MPH will be honored as this year's BIDMC Neonatology Marie McCormick Lecturer Thursday November 7 at 1200. "Clinical Care and Public Health: Stories from a Combat Neonatologist" will be streamed at global.gotomeeting.com/join/287411493. Hope to see you there!

Paul Clarke Paul Clarke encouraging a full house in Kiev to practice delivery room cuddles for preterm infants. Makes so much sense. Thanks to NZtechno and Pinchuk Foundation for organizing a great conference!

Tomorrow's the day! The fall @PNQIN perinatal opioid project summit. Looking forward to a full day of collaborating and improving with keynote speaker Sarah Wakeman, partners Mass. Public Health, MA Health Policy Commission, and March of Dimes MA-NH, hospital teams, and the families we serve. #pnqinsummit2019

One of my favorite days of the year! The whole state coming together to talk about our opioid exposed dyads and improving care! PNQIN of Massachusetts Munish Gupta Davida Schiff, MD Kelley Saia Sarah Wakeman Boston Medical Center

Typo! Should be PNQIN of Massachusetts.

Packed room PNQIN of Massachusetts #pnqinsummit2019

Wow, nursing panel at PNQIN of Massachusetts summit reminding us that caring for mothers with OUD and infants with NAS can sometimes be a challenge but is always a privilege. #pnquinsummit2019

This is a fantastic article published in AAP Journals today on engaging mothers into early intervention services. How do we break down barriers? They authors have some thoughts. pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/…

Launch meeting for NeoQIC respiratory care collaborative, led by Helen Healy. Many thanks to all the teams for such great energy and so many great ideas. Gotta think BPD doesn't stand a chance with this group!

Should You #Breastfeed if You Have the #Coronavirus? Important q. not w/o controversy. #AAP says: wait and separate mom til infection passed. Everyone else (#WHO, #CDC, #ABM)says: keep going. nytimes.com/2020/04/06/par…

Anny Caruso was diagnosed with COVID-19 at 31 weeks pregnant. She shares her delivery experience, and how the BIDMC Neonatology team helped reunite her with baby Ava, via WCVB-TV Boston: bit.ly/3aXiFow

A message from #SONPM Chair, Dr. Mark Hudak: “Section leadership is engaging closely with AAP advocacy staff to ensure this executive order does not negatively affect compassionate evidence-based care for children...”