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 132: What I wish I knew about…being a military NICU family
Guest: Taneisha Stamps, Military NICU Mom The NICU and the military share common feelings of isolation, mental health challenges like PTSD, and dependence upon friends and co-workers for support. In this week’s episode, NICU military mom Taneisha Stamps shares her...
Episode 131: What I wish I knew about…organizing & saving NICU photos
Guest: Miss Freddy, Certified Professional Photo Organizer Professional photo organizer Miss Freddy addresses the emotional and logistical challenges of capturing and storing photos during a NICU stay. In this episode, we discuss what we wish we had known earlier—from...
Season 10 Trailer: What I Wish I Knew
Guest: Savannah O’Malley, NICU Mom & Artist Season 10 is here! What I Wish I Knew dives deep into the wisdom and hard-won life lessons parents and experts learned and now want to pass along to you. Our guest lineup includes a diverse group including a NICU nurse,...
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
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
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
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?
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
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 123: A Slow Exhale: Finding Purpose Through Special Needs Parenting
Guest: Valerie Rodriguez, Special Needs Mom Valerie Rodriguez wasn’t planning on a lot of things: another pregnancy, multiples, a NICU stay or even having to say goodbye to one of her boys. In this episode she shares how she found her new normal, navigating grief,...
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
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,...
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