NICU Products – Empowering NICU Parents

We created products specific for you and your NICU baby! Our goal is to educate, empower, and support NICU parents. Shop our NICU-related products to help ease your NICU journey, capture all of your infant’s successes, and show your pride for your NICU baby. A portion of the proceeds from each sale, go back into our foundation to help and support current NICU families.

NICU Journal

Our NICU Roadmap is a comprehensive journal that includes everything you have been looking for plus more! It is a detailed Roadmap guided by a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner to ease the NICU Journey from admission to discharge.

As a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner and mama of a former 23 weeker, I created this journal bearing in mind all of the important tools that I felt were missing in a NICU journal. Our NICU Roadmap not only allows you to document your baby’s progress in the NICU, but it is also a great resource for parents along the way. We have included tips to get you through each day, a detailed glossary with common terms and abbreviations used in the NICU, and we address common questions parents have regarding their baby and the NICU journey.

Our journal equips parents with the necessary resources so you can become an active and confident member of your baby’s care team. With dedicated space to document your baby’s progress each day including information about your pregnancy, the delivery, your baby’s arrival, NICU information, all of their achievements, but especially their daily lab values, respiratory support, feedings, and the plan of care each day.

The journal will not only ease you along your NICU journey, but it will also be a great keepsake to treasure.

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NICU Mama and Preemie Mama Hats

NICU Moms are a unique group of strong, brave, and proud women! It is not necessarily a group that you would choose to be a part of, but once you have personally endured the NICU journey, you become part of a special tribe! To honor and celebrate all of the strong NICU Mamas within the NICU Community, we created NICU Mama and Preemie Mama hats.

Our trucker baseball hats are multi-colored and adorable! We offer two different color options in either blue and teal or teal and mustard. Choose from either “NICU Mama” or “Preemie Mama” for the leather patch.

I personally know that the NICU journey is very difficult and stressful for all parents. Our NICU babies are incredibly strong and resilient and we as NICU moms carry so much pride for them and all of their accomplishments. Show your pride for your brave little one and celebrate your personal strength as a NICU Mama too with these adorable hats! Or consider purchasing one for that strong NICU Mom you know and adore!

Our hats are adjustable so one-size fits all! We ship for FREE in the United States! Grab your hat now!

NICU Milestone Cards

Your premature baby will amaze you everyday! They have strength and determination that must be celebrated! The time spent in the NICU is incredibly stressful. I always encourage parents to celebrate and capture every single milestone and achievement their baby conquers.

Capture every incredible moment your baby achieves while in the NICU with these colorful milestone cards.

Each set includes 26 bright, colorful, and unique downloadable milestone cards with a dedicated space for you to write the date your infant achieved each milestone.

Grab a photo with your baby and each milestone card. The photographs will be a great keepsake and with the date in the photo, you will never forget when your baby achieved each milestone.

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Newborn Holiday Cards

Celebrate every one of your baby’s first holidays with these beautiful, unique holiday cards. There is a card for every major and minor holiday so you will not miss capturing the perfect photo opportunity during your baby’s first year!

Each set includes 13 cards beautifully created cards for every holiday with a dedicated space to write each holiday’s date.

Your baby’s first year will fly by! Capture an amazing keepsake with the beautiful downloadable holiday cards!

baby's first holiday, baby's first christmas, baby's first halloween, baby's first thanksgiving, first mother's day, first father's day

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Empowering NICU Parents Podcast

A podcast specifically meant to educate and empower NICU parents as they endure their baby’s NICU journey. We provide you with tangible tips and support from my unique perspective as a Neonatal Nurse Practitioner (NNP) and a proud preemie Mama! Along with sharing answers to the NICU medical questions you have, Nicole will address and support you through the incredibly difficult emotional struggles that only a NICU parent can understand. Tune in and subscribe today!

To start 2024 out, our first episode focuses on marijuana use, its impact on pregnancy, the growing fetus and the child’s future development, as well as the implications of its use during breastfeeding.

Who would have thought that in 2024, we would be living in a time where marijuana use is so prominent and that it would be legal in 24 states as of January of 2024?!?

But, nonetheless, here we are! Because marijuana has been legalized in so many states, there are now false evolving perceptions on its general safety as well as its implications on the developing fetus and infant who are exposed to it either in utero or through breastmilk. In general, the perception of harm from marijuana is decreasing while the potency of marijuana is scarily increasing. Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug during pregnancy in the United States. And, its use in gaining speed amongst all adult age groups, in both sexes, and in pregnant women.

For our 56th episode, I reviewed the most up-to-date literature and will share the findings from several studies that reveal both short and long-term negative effects on the pregnant mother and developing fetus if used during pregnancy, and its future implications on the growing infant, child, and their transition into the teenage years, and as an adult after prenatal exposure. I will also point out the general concentration of marijuana in breast milk if used by a nursing mother, as well as how long it stays in the breast milk, and how it may impact the exposed infant.

This episode is packed full of useful information and will be ideal for any healthcare worker or for family members and friends who care about a pregnant woman or nursing mother who is currently using marijuana and want to ensure that she is fully educated on the implications of its use on her growing fetus or infant. And last, but actually, the most important, I encourage ALL women who are either considering becoming pregnant or who are currently pregnant and use marijuana on a regular basis, to listen.

Although marijuana use is so prevelant, it is so crucial that we fully understand its potential impact on the fetus and the child’s future development if used during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
You will not want to miss this one!

Dr. Brown’s Medical: https://www.drbrownsmedical.com

Our NICU Roadmap: A Comprehensive NICU Journal: https://empoweringnicuparents.com/nicujournal/

NICU Mama Hats: https://empoweringnicuparents.com/hats/

NICU Milestone Cards: https://empoweringnicuparents.com/nicuproducts/

Newborn Holiday Cards: https://empoweringnicuparents.com/shop/

Empowering NICU Parents Show Notes: https://empoweringnicuparents.com/shownotes/

Episode 56 Show Notes: https://empoweringnicuparents.com/episode56

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