Tune in to hear a continuation of my conversation with Anese Barnett, a perinatal mental health therapist. You will benefit from listening if you are a NICU mother who has experienced or is currently experiencing the stress and associated trauma of…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Supporting Maternal Mental Health in the NICU – Are We Doing Enough?
In this podcast, we focus on identifying ways to support maternal mental health for NICU Mamas. As May is Maternal Mental Health Month, I sat down with Anese Barnett, a perinatal mental health therapist and clinical psychology doctoral student who is…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Non-Invasive Ventilation in the NICU – A Review of NIPPV, CPAP, HFNC, and LFNC too
In this episode, we review non-invasive ventilation in the NICU, or respiratory support without an endotracheal tube, but rather with a nasal cannula or face mask.
If your baby currently has or had Respiratory Distress Syndrome, the chances are…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Ventilator Review in the NICU – What Does Positive Pressure, Volume-Targeted, and High Frequency Do?
Do you have a baby in the NICU who is intubated and on a ventilator? Are you desperately trying to understand what the care team is talking about when they mention positive pressure with SIMV, PIP, and PEEP, or volume-targeted with tidal volume, or…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Living Your Best Life with HIE
To honor HIE Awareness Month this April, I sat down with the Executive Director for Hope for HIE, Betsy Pilon.
Betsy shares her personal experience after her son, Max was diagnosed with HIE or Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy, a type of neonatal…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Take a Deep Breath – Diving Into Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Newborns
In this episode, we take a deep dive into Respiratory Distress Syndrome or RDS in newborns.
RDS is the dominant clinical problem preterm infants face. But, RDS it is not exclusive to just premature infants.
Tune in to learn more about RDS, what…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Healing From a Broken Heart – Part II
In our continued discussion, Heidi House and I discuss her amazing work with Save the Mommies. As the Illinois Representative, she brings awareness and educates women on the common symptoms of Peripartum Cardiomyopathy and also speaks at national…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Healing From a Broken Heart
To honor Heart Disease month, I sat down with my dear friend, Heidi House for an interview.
She speaks openly and candidly about an experience that should have been full of joy, but rather left her physically and emotionally with a broken heart….
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast NICU Equipment from Head to Toe – What You Need to Know
If you are a NICU parent and feel completely overwhelmed and scared by all of the wires, tubes, and equipment around them, this episode is for you!
There really is no preparation for parents – especially when it comes to YOUR child – But after this…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Against All Odds
Meet, Yesenia Wittman, a new mother, who with her strong advocacy, hope, faith, and positivity, ultimately saved her daughter’s life! You will not help to be enlightened and filled with hope as you hear their story.
Amidst the COVID pandemic, she…