How to Use neonatal in a Sentence

neonatal

adjective
  • They can be spayed and neutered and find new homes, but neonatal kittens cannot.
    — Kelli Bender, People.com, 24 June 2025
  • For the first time, there will be a neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The first few weeks of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit were tough.
    — Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Dec. 2021
  • One is the state of neonatal care at a particular point in time.
    — New York Times, 24 June 2022
  • At birth, the baby was in the neonatal intensive care unit for about a week.
    — cleveland, 2 Jan. 2022
  • River spent her first month of life in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Francisco Rosa, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2022
  • Vivian spent the next three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Editorial Board, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
  • They're being cared for by staff in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Leah Asmelash and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 29 Nov. 2019
  • Lastly, there's the rare neonatal lupus, which is not a true form of lupus.
    — Azmia Magane, Allure, 7 Sep. 2019
  • In most countries, she’d be rushed to a neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2026
  • In the neonatal intensive care unit, the lights were dimmed, as usual.
    — Bryant Furlow, ProPublica, 30 Mar. 2021
  • No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing.
    — Peggy Drexler, CNN, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Her cousin, who was working a shift that night as a neonatal intensive care nurse, walked in.
    — Carol Marbin Miller, ProPublica, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Rani’s newborn son weighed almost eight pounds and had perfect neonatal scores.
    — Ben Taub, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Also, stillbirth and neonatal death rates were low, the researchers found.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The baby was small and had to spend nearly two weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Noam Levey, NPR, 9 May 2024
  • Jayden was born with fluid on her lungs and had to spend time in the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — cincinnati.com, 7 May 2021
  • 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
  • The baby had to spend 45 days in a neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Katheryn Houghton, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Vivian stayed in the neonatal intensive care unit at Methodist for three weeks.
    — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 9 May 2018
  • In total, five boys and two girls were killed while under Letby’s care in the neonatal ward.
    — Liam Quinn, Peoplemag, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Mullen, a neonatal nurse, cared for Small's babies in the hospital.
    — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Teri Killough, 51, has been a neonatal nurse for more than 20 years.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The boys are expected to remain in the neonatal intensive care unit for three to five weeks.
    — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Calvin was taken to the neonatal intensive care unit, where his heart rate dropped to 48 beats per minute.
    — Josette Cordell Special To The Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 18 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Hobbs spoke about the accomplishments of the hospital and showed a film about its new neonatal ward.
    — Jane Napier Neely, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
  • Vogt spends much of her time in the hospital's birth center and the neonatal intensive care unit.
    — Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • This early stage, called the neonatal period, lasts about 10 days.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026

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