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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…