Bloom Standard

11/27/2025

For those celebrating today, and to the many families and care teams spending today with little ones in medical settings, happy . Swift healing and love to you and yours. ❤️🍁

11/12/2025

Happy Birthday Bloom Standard! 🎂 Like all startups, we've been busy growing and learning...and repeating that cycle to get through some pretty tremendous milestones. For this team it's about getting life-saving ultrasound to the world's most vulnerable patients. There are a thousand people to thank for their ongoing support and collaboration... but here's to an amazing year ahead! 💪

09/14/2025

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When you picture meeting your baby for the first time, you imagine the “golden hour”. Those precious first moments where the world feels quiet and still, where you breathe them in and memorize every detail.

But when your baby is born with a heart defect, those first moments look so very different.

Instead of being placed on your chest, they are swept away within minutes to be stabilized. Instead of soft newborn snuggles in the safety of your home, you find yourself freshly postpartum, sitting beside a hospital bed, holding their tiny hand through wires and monitors. Instead of taking sweet newborn photos, you’re signing consent forms for surgery. Instead of resting, your body healing, you’re walking long hospital halls each day, your heart heavy and hopeful all at once.

But here’s the thing, those firsts still come. And when they do, they carry a weight and a sweetness that’s hard to put into words. The first time you hold them, after waiting and aching for that moment. The first time you take them outside, showing them the world they’ve fought so hard to see. The first time you bring them home, crossing a threshold you once only dreamed of.

And for the moms whose babies never made it to those firsts, who had to say goodbye before there was a chance for outside walks or homecomings, your love is no less real, no less fierce. Your firsts may have been the onlys: the first time you held them, kissed their cheeks, whispered their name. And those moments are etched into your heart forever. They matter. You matter. Your baby matters.

These journeys are not the ones we dreamed of, but they are sacred. Every first, whether here or only in memory, is a testament to love. A love that begins the moment we see that positive test and never, ever ends.

06/06/2025

Oil on Canvas, sophomore final art project. -Eve S.

05/26/2025

Memorial Day started with our yellow lab at the back door with a little friend in his mouth. This is not the first time. We have a resident bunny in our house, and we think our dog sees little bunnies outdoors in need of her assistance.

Gratefully, labs and retrievers are genetically “soft-mouthed”…bred to retrieve game without damaging them. We’re lucky enough to live near a Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Minnesota location. These places are amazing, open every day, including holidays, no fees for taking in injured wildlife….they deserve ALL the support. In the first 15 minutes of opening, the staff calmly handled intake for 10 cases, including at least one full brood of orphaned ducklings). Bunny is now in good hands, and hopefully recovering well. ❤️‍🩹

05/11/2025

Celebrating and honoring every mother today. Whether you are rocking a newborn to sleep, walking beside a child in the NICU, or holding the memory of a child in your heart, this day is for you.

Motherhood comes in many forms…thank you for all you do, all you endure. 🤱🏽🌷

*Photo shared with permission

03/20/2025

Hey, Stanford. Good to be back! ❤️💪

03/17/2025

Yay! Our team is presenting tomorrow at the Pediatric & Maternal innovation Showcase. Excited to see our friends, colleagues, fellow innovators. Kudos to the UCSF-Stanford for supporting this important work! 🤰🏻🤱🏽❤️

Join us on March 17th for the eighth annual Stanford Medicine Pediatric & Maternal Innovation Showcase—virtually or in person.

02/15/2025

👏👏❤️ Corazón de Niño

❤ 24 años haciendo latir más corazones ❤

Este 14 de febrero, en el Día Mundial de las Cardiopatías Congénitas conmemoramos 24 años de Corazón de Niño, 24 años de trabajo incansable, compromiso y amor por la niñez.🫀

Cada año, hemos transformado diagnósticos en esperanza, preocupaciones en sonrisas y obstáculos en nuevas oportunidades de vida.

Gracias a nuestros donantes, aliados, voluntarios y familias por ser parte de esta historia.

✨ Sigamos latiendo juntos por un futuro lleno de oportunidades para nuestras niñas y niños. ✨

02/14/2025

It’s been an important week for those impacted by CHD! For Bloom Standard, it’s year round, 24/7.

The clinicians, public health stakeholders and families that have helped guide the development of a novel technology to more effectively detect and assess babies and children with pediatric heart diseases. Plus our founders are heart parents. Driven. ❤️‍🩹 It’s a privilege to be working every day to improve the lives of children with CHD!

01/08/2025

Proud to be partnered with Corazón de Niño and so many amazing clinical and research teams in . For every child impacted by CHD and pediatric heart diseases. 🙏❤️

12/30/2024

No one made a bigger impression, a bigger impact, with more humility and humanity. It was among the greatest privileges to know President Carter….deepest sympathies to his family, colleagues around the world. What a legacy he has left. 🙏