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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:

  • 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 129: How Art Helped Me Heal

Episode 129: How Art Helped Me Heal

Guest: Savannah O’Malley, NICU Mom & Artist As NICU parents, we’re all healing from a trauma. So when today’s guest, Savannah O’Malley, sought her own healing she found it in a beautiful place, her art. And that healing didn’t just benefit her own stories but the...

Episode 128: Giving NICU Babies a Voice

Episode 128: Giving NICU Babies a Voice

Guest: Candace Cronin, PhD: NICU, Foster & Adoptive Mom & CASA AdvocateIn this episode, we sit down with Candace Blair Cronin, PhD—a full-time working mom of four and a passionate advocate for children in the foster care system. From fostering and adopting to...

Episode 127: Seeing Double Double: Raising Identical Quads

Episode 127: Seeing Double Double: Raising Identical Quads

Guest: Mercedes & Jonathan Sandhu, Parents to Identical Quadruplets When you’re given news you never expected - identical quadruplet girls in the case of Mercedes and Jonathan Sandhu -  you often wonder how it’s possible to do something hard.In this episode, we chat...

Episode 126: Adopting a NICU Baby

Episode 126: Adopting a NICU Baby

Guest: Shannon Donnelly When parents get the call about a baby ready for adoption, they don’t often expect it to be accompanied with a NICU stay. Adoptive mom, Shannon Donnelly, shares how life changed for her and her husband, how they navigated an out-of-state...

Episode 125: Is This Normal, or Not?

Episode 125: Is This Normal, or Not?

Guest: Dr. Meghan Martin, aka drbeachgem10 “Is this normal?” is something almost every NICU parent asks about their baby at some point. In this episode, popular social media ER doctor, Dr. Meghan Martin aka drbeachgem.10, shares her own NICU story, how to be a good...

Episode 124: The 411 on ROP: All About Tiny Eyes

Episode 124: The 411 on ROP: All About Tiny Eyes

Guest: Dr. Rupa Wong, Pediatric OpthalmologistNICU parents worry about a lot, but we know that education is power. If your child is at risk for eye abnormalities like retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), or has been diagnosed, pediatric ophthalmologist and popular...

Episode 122: What it Feels Like to Lose Control

Episode 122: What it Feels Like to Lose Control

Guest: Britt Fisk, Special Needs Mom & Cancer SurvivorHer daughter was diagnosed with spina bifida during a tenuous spinal surgery, and then she was diagnosed with breast cancer. As the mom of eight, Britt Fisk knows a thing or two about surrendering control. Her...

Episode 121: Supporting Families in Crisis

Episode 121: Supporting Families in Crisis

Guests: Kelli Kelley, founder and CEO, and Katrina Moline, Executive Director of Hand to HoldEveryday, 3,000 parents find out their child may have a NICU stay. They may start by logging on to the Hand to Hold website, but Founder and CEO of Hand to Hold, Kelli Kelley,...

Episode 120: Season 9: Finding Your New Normal

Episode 120: Season 9: Finding Your New Normal

How many times has someone asked you, “Are things back to normal yet?” following your NICU stay? We know how frustrating that question, and the answers, can be. In season 9 of the NICU Babies Parent Support podcast, it’s all about finding your new normal. Our diverse...

Episode 119: Life After a Heart Transplant

Episode 119: Life After a Heart Transplant

Guest: Kasie Marek, Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome momFrom there to here. When Kasie Marek’s son received a heart transplant after a long and difficult medical road of treating his hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), she had no idea what lay on the other side of...

Episode 118: Pregnancy After a NICU Baby

Episode 118: Pregnancy After a NICU Baby

Guest: Stephanie Goley, Special Needs MomShould you have another child after a NICU stay? While it’s a common question, there is no easy answer. Special needs mom Stephanie Goley shares how her family weighed the decision of adding to their family, how they focused on...

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