Are you suffering from trauma after your baby or babies spent time in the NICU? Have you brushed off symptoms of trauma or PTSD? How could you suffer from PTSD when your baby only spent a few days in the NICU?
Trauma is the result from an upsetting…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Advice for Current NICU Parents From Mothers of Multiples
If you are a NICU parent and in the midst of your baby’s NICU journey, you must listen to this episode. This episode features great advice, tips, suggestions, and encouragement from former NICU Moms that you must hear! Although the tips are mostly…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Infant of Diabetic Mother: What are the potential complications and typical treatment plan?
What does IDM stand for? In the medical world, IDM is an acronym for Infant of Diabetic Mother. In this episode, we review the common complications associated with Infants of Diabetic Mothers. You may be surprised to hear that there are several…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Gestational Diabetes: From diagnosis in pregnancy to blood sugar management and its effect on the health of the mother and infant
Who is at risk for gestational diabetes? How is it diagnosed? If I have gestational diabetes, how will it affect my pregnancy and my baby? What is the best way to manage my blood sugars? Will my baby be more likely to have diabetes in the future? How…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in NICU Patients with Occupational Therapy – Part II
If you are a current or former NICU parent, you will want to listen to this episode. There are so many pieces of information you receive as a NICU parent while your baby is in the NICU and it continues once you bring your baby home. Tune in to hear…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in NICU Patients with Occupational Therapy
Our 16th podcast episode focuses on the positive neonatal neurodevelopment outcomes that occur when there is close collaboration and team work with the NICU care team and therapy services.
The podcast features, Tracey Kondrasuk-Brander, a certified…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Kangaroo Care in the NICU: How to address the barriers, assess for readiness, and transfer the infant safely
In our episode, we continue our discussion on kangaroo care by addressing some of the common barriers to kangaroo care and why it may not always be encouraged sooner. We review ways to minimize some of the common obstacles NICUs encounter that may…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Kangaroo Care in the NICU: How Does it Benefit the Infant and Parents?
Kangaroo care has numerous benefits for the baby and parents! Skin-to-skin care is now a modern day practice in the obstetrics and NICU world. Learn how it was first put into place out of pure necessity and why the practice is so strongly encouraged…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Supporting Maternal Mental Health in the NICU – Are We Doing Enough? Part II
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…