Posts: Bonding

5 Reasons to do Kangaroo Care with Your Baby

5 Reasons to do Kangaroo Care with Your Baby

by | May 14, 2018 | NICU Life

If you’re in the NICU, chances are your medical team will encourage you to participate in skin-to-skin care with your baby, also known as kangaroo care. Kangaroo care has many positive benefits for both parents and babies, could result in a shorter NICU stay,...
Bonding with Your NICU Baby at Home

Bonding with Your NICU Baby at Home

by | May 1, 2017 | Life after the NICU

by Dr. Lisa Michelle Noll, Pediatric psychologist at Texas Children’s Hospital When we are pregnant, we dream of the first minutes and hours after birth, holding, kissing, and caring for our newborn baby. Attaching to and bonding with our newborn baby seems natural,...
The NICU Window

The NICU Window

by | Mar 27, 2017 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU

My son is nearly 15 months old. Some days I look at my busy, clumsy toddler and forget that the NICU ever happened. Other days I remember it like it was yesterday, the memories of our month in the NICU still so vividly alive in my mind. Where we currently live, I...
Huggies Launches New Nano Preemie Diaper

Huggies Launches New Nano Preemie Diaper

by | Feb 13, 2017 | News

This month Huggies® launched their smallest diaper yet, the Little Snugglers Nano Preemie diaper, designed to fit micro preemies weighing under two pounds. Develoed in partnership with NICU nurses as a part of Huggies’® No Baby Unhugged program, the diaper is...