by Leigh Ann Torres | Feb 22, 2021 | Mental Health, News
In partnership with Sage Therapeutics, we’ve released a 5-episode miniseries on the Beyond the NICU podcast on the topic of maternal mental health in the NICU and after. Listen to all five episodes today, and subscribe to Beyond the NICU wherever you get your...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Feb 8, 2021 | NICU Life
Bonding with your NICU baby is not easy, but it is crucial not only to the infant’s health, but to your own. Parent interaction with a full-term baby is often immediate: holding, feeding, soothing. But when the unexpected happens and your baby is instead taken to the...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Dec 28, 2020 | Family Stories
When NICU families talk about what helped get them through their NICU stay, the transition to home, and the sometimes tumultuous months that can follow, it’s peer support in the NICU – support from other parents who have been down a similar road –...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Dec 21, 2020 | Family Stories
Before my twin sons were born at 23 weeks, I’d never heard of the NICU. But it was a place I would soon come to know well during our 296-day stay. by Valerie Rodriguez, mom to Cristiano and Cruz My entire pregnancy had been a surprise, but nothing prepared us for the...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Dec 14, 2020 | Family Stories
“The first night I said, ‘I don’t know if I’m strong enough to do this.’ But I didn’t have a choice.” Tiffany and Darren Allen’s daughter, Kinslee, was born in August of 2020 at just 24 weeks – a terrifying ordeal in any situation, but even more so during a...
