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All Maine hospitals with birth facilities offer newborn hearing screening before babies go home. A hearing screening is a test to tell if an infant might have a hearing loss.

Maine's Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program helps parent's find out if a baby has certain health conditions. Babies with these conditions may look healthy at birth. If not treated, these conditions can cause significant health problems. With treatment, these problems may be prevented. This blood test is a screen and t is important for your baby to have regular check-ups and medical care.

Critical Congenital Heart Disease Screening

Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD), involve types of heart defects that lead to low levels of oxygen in a newborn. This screening is important because some babies born with CCHD appear healthy at first but will need surgery or other procedures in the first year of life.

In the U.S. about 7,200 babies are born every year with a critical congenital heart defects. Undiagnosed babies are at risk of having serious complications within the first few days or weeks of life and often require emergency care.