NICU Babies Parent Support Podcast
NICU Babies Parent Support Podcast
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A podcast for all NICU parents
Listen while on bedrest, in the NICU, commuting to and from the hospital for visits with your baby, and in your post-NICU life, when many still need support.
Podcast episodes cover topics including:
- Mental health and counseling
- Self-care and asking for help
- Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs)
- Grief, loss and palliative care
- Helpful resources (medical equipment, medical journaling)
- Parenting multiples
- Advocating for your baby
- Medical billing and insurance
- NICU parent stories (moms and dads)
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Episode 151: Immeasurable Love: Loss in the NICU
In honor of National Bereaved Parents Awareness Month this July, we are revisiting eight special episodes on grief and loss, hosted by our original founder, Kelli Kelley, and bereaved parent, Keira Sorrells. We hope these stories make you feel seen. A reminder that...
Episode 150: Grief’s Tasks
In honor of National Bereaved Parents Awareness Month this July, we are revisiting eight special episodes on grief and loss, hosted by our original founder, Kelli Kelley, and bereaved parent, Keira Sorrells. We hope these stories make you feel seen. A reminder that...
Episode 149: Calling All NICU Baby Cuddlers
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Guest: Lynn Harris NICU Baby Cuddler, Vietnam Veteran Lynn Harris is a retired U.S. Army veteran and longtime volunteer at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, TX. For more than a decade, he has served in the...
Episode 148: Calling All NICU Grandfathers
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Guest: Avid Noble NICU Grandfather & Restaurant Owner Avid Noble’s introduction to Hand to Hold came first as a third-party vendor, helping a friend of a friend. A few years later, it was Avid reaching out to Hand...
Episode 147: Calling All Micro Preemie NICU Dads
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Guest: Lucas Manring NICU Dad, Finance & Operations Executive Everything was normal, until it wasn’t. Lucas Manring’s first baby was born via emergency c-section at 25 weeks and he found himself plunged into fatherhood...
Episode 146: Calling All Bereaved & Veteran NICU Dads
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Guest: Matt Bialkowski Dads of the NICU Podcast Matt Bialkowski, a two-time NICU dad from Australia and host of the Dads of the NICU podcast, shares an honest look at what it’s like to navigate the NICU as a father....
Episode 145: A Conversation with a Men’s Mental Health Expert
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Guest: Sheehan Fisher, PhD Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavorial Sciences, Northwestern UniversityDr. Sheehan Fisher’s entire career has been focused on the mothers and fathers unique contributions to the...
Episode 144: Calling All Military NICU Dads
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician With a military career that spans more than 20 years, Adam Wood thought his training would prepare him for a NICU stay. While there were some similarities, he discovered that learning and advocacy were in his new battle...
Episode 143: Calling All Co-Parenting NICU Dads
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician When Aaron’s (then) wife developed pre-eclampsia and was ushered to the hospital in an ambulance, he quickly found himself the dad of a 29-weeker. He was wholly unprepared for the sleeplessness, the worry and the...
Episode 142: Calling All NICU Dads of Multiples
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Identical quadruplet girls + 2 other children, all under 6? If there’s a dad that gets multiples and all that comes with it, it’s engineer and dad of quads, Jonathan Sandhu. In this episode, Jonathan shares how he...
Episode 141: Calling All NICU Dads of Big Families
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician Dads of big families, welcome to the group chat. Fundraiser and father of 6, including two NICU babies, Scott Whitaker shares how he embraced his role as a NICU dad, his clutch advice for other NICU dads (big or small...
Episode 140: Season 11 – Calling All NICU Dads!
Guest: Dr. Mona Amin (PedsDocTalk), Pediatrician There are so many resources for NICU moms, but what about the dads, the grandfathers, the uncles and the men of the NICU? This season is all about them - their perspectives, their experiences, how they supported their...
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