Bayhealth hospitals are walking away from the tradition of taking a baby's footprint with ink. Instead, within two hours of a baby being born, nurses at Kent General and Milford Memorial scan the ...

It's long been tradition to record a baby's first footprint in ink shortly after he or she is born at the hospital. Now the precious keepsake often kept by parents in baby books is going digital in ...

Welcome to the world, Spencer Auerbach, a newborn bundle of joy whose tiny feet are helping a North Shore hospital take some big steps. When Spencer was born at 8:18 Monday night at North Shore ...

It may be a tiny footprint for newborns, but the introduction of CertaScan Technologies at Katz Women’s Hospital at North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) represents a giant leap forward in the area ...

When you bring your newborn home from the hospital, you get a crash-course in parenting. Within this whirlwind of crying, diapers and bottles, you want to carve out some time to get some foot- or ...

(NBC NEWS) – A hospital in Missouri is using new technology to record a newborn’s footprints. The new system is at St. Lukes in Chesterfield and is called Certa Scan. The digital scanner takes ...

Rutland (Vt.) Regional Medical Center started a new safety program for newborn babies involving taking pictures of their feet, CBS affiliate WCAX reported March 13. The hospital is the first in the ...

Parents still take home the image but this is adding a layer of security and fun. Two-day-old Maria Dalfonso is already described as "sassy" and her parents Kelly and Joe can't take their eyes off her ...

A woman who delivered her baby at Duke University Hospital ended up getting a surprise delivery in the mail. One week after Evelyn Shields-Cowley returned home to Duplin County, the hospital sent her ...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Some Delaware hospitals are putting images of the faces and footprints of newborns into a system to make it easier for families to identify missing infants. The News Journal of ...