NICU Now Episode 2: From Powerless to Empowered – Learning to Advocate for Your Baby in the NICU
In this episode
- How parents can avoid letting stress and anxiety take over and find their footing in the NICU
- Advice for empowering yourself as a parent and becoming your baby’s advocate
- How to embrace your feelings of guilt and inadequacy, for they are normal, but to let go of the expectations you once had for your pregnancy/baby
- Overcoming guilt and fear of caring for a disabled child
Resources mentioned in this podcast
- Girl in Glass by Deanna Fei
- Premature Babies Have Increased Nutritional Needs, from Prolacta Bioscience
- NICU Healing
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Additional resources
- How to Communicate with Your Baby’s Care Team
- 7 Tips for Advocating for Your Kids
- New to the NICU? 10 Questions to Ask
- What is NICU Family-Centered Care?
- 5 Ways to Tap the Power of Your Preemie Parent Voice
- Why Donate? from Prolacta Bioscience
- Being Your Baby’s Advocate, from Every Tiny Thing
- Parent Advocates: Born in the NICU, from prematurity.org
- Advocating for Your Baby in the NICU, from What to Expect
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