“Mom is the treatment.” Doctors are rethinking the practice of drugging babies born to mothers who use opioids.
A caregiver feeding a tiny patient at Hushabye Nursery, which cares for babies in opioid withdrawal.Thousands of babies are born each year to mothers who are using opioids. The newborns enter the world in withdrawal—some fussy and sweating, others struggling to feed.
The treatment, until recently, was to separate the babies from their mothers, start them on morphine, and keep them isolated for days or weeks of intensive care.
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