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Hand to Hold Letter Series: To the Parent Navigating a High-Risk Pregnancy
Dear parents navigating a high-risk pregnancy, Navigating a high-risk pregnancy can feel overwhelming and scary. It can feel like walking a tightrope – delicate, nerve-wracking, and often isolating. The medical complexities are just one piece of the puzzle....
Announcing the Newly-Designed Hand to Hold App
Hand to Hold is proud to announce its brand new innovative app created specifically for NICU parents. Available free in the App Store and Google Play, the Hand to Hold app offers support, community, and educational resources for NICU and bereaved parents, right at...
Stay Healthy! Tips for Visiting the Pediatrician with Preemies or NICU Grads
by Jenna Maxfield While there are many precautions parents can take to protect their NICU graduates from contracting illnesses such as a cold, the flu, RSV or COVID-19, sometimes the inevitable happens. Between school, play dates, family visits and running errands,...
How to Support Your Partner During a NICU Stay
A traumatic birth and a NICU stay both place added pressure on relationships. Both partners may react to stress and grief very differently. Tending to and nourishing your relationship with your partner now will provide for a stronger foundation for your family as...
Why You Should Set Intentions Instead of Resolutions
Setting intentions can feel kinder to yourself. We’ve all entered into a new year, bringing with us baggage from the past year, an ongoing pandemic, and the expectations of New Year’s resolutions. New year, new me. There’s a general feeling of displacement that has...
Coping with Holidays in the NICU, After the NICU, and in Bereavement
Yes, the holidays are hard but even more so in the NICU, post NICU, or in bereavement. The holidays are hard. This used to be a blanket statement I subscribed to. Prior to being in the NICU with my wife and daughter, going home on hospice care, and becoming a...
Meet the 2022 NICU Hero Award Winner Kate Higgins, RN!
Congratulations to Kate Higgins, RN, for being named the 2022 NICU Hero Award winner! Higgins cares for families in the NICU at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. We asked parents across the U.S. to nominate their NICU Hero, someone who...
Tracheostomy in the NICU: The Test Family’s Experience
This article is sponsored by Neotech. For NICU mom Teresa, news that her daughter, Teigan, needed a tracheostomy came after her family had already been in the NICU for three months. Teigan was born with an omphalocele, a condition in which some of her abdominal...
Tips for Enduring Quarantine and Isolation During RSV Season
Isolation. Quarantine. While NICU parents are thrilled to have their babies home, life is not necessarily back to normal. If you come home close to or during cold, flu and RSV season, you're likely facing these two words - isolation and quarantine - and looking...
Hand to Hold to Host 2022 NICU Community Conference
Hand to Hold invites all NICU parents & NICU professionals to be part of unlocking change for the NICU families of today and tomorrow at the 2022 NICU Community Conference. Hand to Hold, a national nonprofit that provides early intervention mental health...
Nominate a NICU Professional for the NICU Hero Award
Hand to Hold invites all NICU parents to nominate a special NICU Hero and celebrate how they made a difference in their NICU journey. NICU parents are invited to nominate NICU professionals for Hand to Hold's NICU Hero Award, to be celebrated at the 2022 National...