NICU Babies Parent Support Podcast
NICU Babies Parent Support is 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:
- The importance of maternal mental health
- Self care in the NICU for parents
- Postpartum depression
- Bed rest with high-risk pregnancy
- Traumatic birth experiences
- Advocating for your baby in the NICU and beyond
- Supporting dads & their mental health in the NICU
- Love and loss in the NICU
- NICU parent stories from both moms and dads
- And more!
- Episode 92: Season Finale & Looking to 2024
- Episode 91: New Tech for Babies
- Episode 90: Chaplaincy and the NICU
- Episode 89: Food Allergies and the Holidays
- Episode 88: Using TikTok to Normalize Family Life
- Episode 87: Receiving a Down Syndrome Diagnosis
- Episode 86: Did I Leave the NICU with PTSD?
- Episode 85: Just Landed in the NICU? Start Here.
- Episode 84: An Honest Conversation with a NICU Nurse
- Episode 83: Finding the Best Pediatrician for Your NICU Baby
- Episode 82: Common Breastfeeding Challenges in the NICU
- Episode 81: The Importance of Donor Milk
- Episode 80: Helping Your Child in School Throuhg IEPs and 504s
- Episode 79: What to Do When Your NICU Kid is Bullied
- Episode 78: Breastfeeding, Birth Photography, and Doulas
- Episode 77: Palliative Care in the NICU
- Episode 76: How One Mom’s Grief Moved Her to Action
- Episode 75: Caring for Your Child’s Wounds
- Episode 74: Preparing Your Baby for Surgery
- Episode 73: Mental Health: Can a Psychologist Help My Child? (part 4 of 4)
- Episode 72: Mental Health: Why We Said Yes to Marriage Counseling (part 3 of 4)
- Episode 71: Mental Health: Does My Child Need a Psychiatrist? (part 2 of 4)
- Episode 70: Mental Health: Couples’ Counseling (part 1 of 4)
- Episode 69: Let’s Hit the Road! Traveling with a Medically Complex Child
- Episode 68: Preeclampsia: How to Heal from Trauma (part 4 of 4)
- Episode 67: Preeclampsia: One couple’s story of grief, guilt & healing (part 3 of 4)
- Episode 66: Preeclampsia: One Mom’s Story off Fear, Survival, and Resiliance (part 2 of 4)
- Episode 65: Preeclampsia: What Is It, and Should You Be Scared? (part 1 of 4)
- Episode 64: How Child Life Specialists Help Kids Cope with Hard Things
- Episode 63: Is it Possible to Balance Home & Career with a NICU Baby?
- Episode 62: Black Maternal Health, Advocacy and Awareness
- Episode 61: Feeding Therapy: Taking the Battle Out of Mealtime
- Episode 60: Let’s Figure This Birth Thing Out
- Episode 59: Where’s Baby? How Books Can Be Great Teachers
- Episode 58: Diet & Nutrition in the NICU
- Episode 57: Day-to-Day Life with Cerebral Palsy
- Episode 56: Navigating a High-Risk Pregnancy
- Episode 55: Living with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Episode 54: Introducing NICU Babies, Parent Support
- Episode 53: Super Scar – How a NICU Mom Used Humor to Share Her Story
- Episode 52: Stitched With Color – Love & Loss in the NICU
- Episode 51: The Risk of PPD After a NICU Stay
- Episode 50: Experiencing Preeclampsia & Postpartum Depression
- Episode 49: Live Big, Love Bigger
- Episode 48: Immeasurable Love – Loss in the NICU
- Episode 47: Intentional Motherhood – Bringing Home Your NICU Baby With Other Children at Home
- Episode 46: Self Care and Postpartum Depression
- Episode 45: Grief’s Tasks
- Episode 44: Returning to Work After a NICU Stay
- Episode 43: The Benefits of Reading Aloud in the NICU
- Episode 42: Occupational Therapy in the NICU & At Home
- Episode 41: Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome – Amber’s NICU Story
- Episode 40: What is a Fetal Medicine Specialist?
- Episode 39: The Importance of Maternal Mental Health
- Episode 38: Anxiety After the NICU
- Episode 37: The Risk of Postpartum Depression (PPD) for Black Mothers
- Episode 36: KC Davis – How to Practice Self-Care (when you feel like you’re drowning)
- Episode 35: Adoption in the NICU – Ava & Mina’s Story
- Episode 34: Tiny Humans, Big Lessons by Sue Ludwig
- Episode 33: Adoption in the NICU – Kevin’s Story
- Episode 32: Poetry for the NICU Parent’s Soul
- Episode 31: JJ Heller’s Lullaby for NICU Families
- Episode 30: All About RSV
- Episode 29: Preemies and Diaper Dermatitis
- Episode 28: A Conversation with Sarah DiGregorio, Author of Early
- Episode 27: Processing Emotions During COVID-19
- Episode 26: Milk is Medicine
- Episode 25: Back to Work
- Episode 24: The Risk of RSV
- Episode 23: Having a Late Pre-Term or Near-Term Baby
- Episode 22: Finding YourVoice as a NICU Parent
- Episode 21: Advocating for NICU Babies and Families
- Episode 20: Advancing Fortification for the Tiniest Babies
- Episode 19: Understanding Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
- Episode 18: Bed Rest with a High-Risk Pregnancy
- Episode 17: Bed Rest with a Multiples Pregnancy
- Episode 16: Bed Rest, the Basics
- Episode 15: Life Transformations After NICU, Part 2
- Episode 14: Life Transformations After NICU, Part 1
- Episode 13: Love and Loss in the NICU
- Episode 12: Home Sweet Home
- Episode 11: The Healing Power of Music in the NICU
- Episode 10: Understanding Developmental Care in the NICU
- Episode 9: The Father’s Perspective: What New Dads Need to Know
- Episode 8: The Girl Who Lived – A Discussion with Tom French
- Episode 7: Reading to Your Baby in the NICU
- Episode 6: Practicing Self Care in the NICU
- Episode 5: Understanding Your Emotions in the NICU
- Episode 4: Finding Your Footing as Parents in the Zero Zone
- Episode 3: The Importance of Bonding with Your Medically Fragile Child
- Episode 2: From Powerless to Empowered – Learning to Advocate for Your Baby in the NICU
- Episode 1: You Are Not Alone – Coping with Guilt & Grief in the NICU
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