If you are getting ready to bring your baby home from the NICU or you have a child who has complex medical needs, this episode is for you! Being a parent is difficult, but when you have a sick child or one that requires extensive medical care,…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Life After NICU With a Medically Complex Child: What is the Reality?
For NICU Parents, the day they are able to bring their baby home is unforgettable. Many parents have spent weeks and months traveling to the NICU to see their baby and have endured a large amount of stress, worry, and concern each day as they watched…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast Questions Parents Should Ask Their Baby’s NICU Care Team Each Day
Our NICU Journal called Our NICU Roadmap has officially been published! My vision for this journal stemmed from the lack of a comprehensive NICU journal available when our son was in the NICU. I wanted to develop a journal that not only was a great…
Empowering NICU Parents Podcast NICU Trauma – How Well Are You Coping?
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…