Penn is testing beanies for NICU babies that block harmful noise and play parents’ messages

When Pamela Collins was pregnant, she would talk and sing to her son through her belly, telling him he was loved. He was the “miracle” she had been waiting for, after four miscarriages and an ectopic pregnancy. She never expected that her son, John, would arrive early at 29 weeks in September and have to spend his first months in the intensive care nursery at the Hospital of the University of ...