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NICU Babies Parent Support

The NICU is hard. We’re here to help. Hand to Hold® is a national nonprofit dedicated to providing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents with personalized emotional support, educational resources and community before, during and after their baby’s NICU stay. NICU support is available at no cost to NICU parents in English & Spanish. Learn more or get support at handtohold.org Follow Hand to Hold: Facebook.com/HANDtoHOLD Instagram: @handtohold Twitter: @NICUHandtoHold YouTube: @handtohold
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Now displaying: October, 2022
Episode 49: Live Big, Love Bigger 0
Oct 26, 2022

Guest: Kathryn Whitaker, author and NICU mom

In this episode:

  • Kathryn discusses her son Luke’s premature birth and diagnosis with NEC
  • How Kathryn found her way to Hand to Hold
  • Luke’s feeding journey and feeding therapy
  • How to handle your preemie’s medical journey, when much of it is out of your control
  • How Kathryn used her NICU journey to write her book, Live Big, Love Bigger

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The NICU is hard. We’re here to help. 

Hand to Hold® is a national nonprofit dedicated to providing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents with personalized emotional support, educational resources and community before, during and after their baby’s NICU stay. NICU support is available at no cost to NICU parents in English & Spanish.

Learn more or get support at handtohold.org

Follow Hand to Hold: 

facebook.com/HANDtoHOLD

Instagram: @handtohold

Twitter: @NICUHandtoHold

Episode 48: Immeasurable Love - Loss in the NICU 0
Oct 21, 2022

Guest: Keira Sorrells

    • Keira talks about her infertility issues and experience getting pregnant with quintuplets, then reducing the pregnancy to triplets
    • Keira talks about the birth of her daughters, Avery, Lily and Zoe, and her experience in the NICU
    • Keira discusses the journey grief after losing Zoe and still having Avery and Lily at home
    • How the loss of a child affects marriages differently
    • What led Keira to found the Zoe Rose Foundation
    • How grief changes over time and how to process that change
    • What is the difference between shame and guilt?

Content Warning: This episode may cover sensitive topics that may bring up emotions or take you back to some difficult memories. If at any time it becomes too much, please make sure to step away, take some deep breaths, go outside, or have some quiet time alone.

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The NICU is hard. We’re here to help. 

Hand to Hold® is a national nonprofit dedicated to providing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents with personalized emotional support, educational resources and community before, during and after their baby’s NICU stay. NICU support is available at no cost to NICU parents in English & Spanish.

Learn more or get support at handtohold.org

Follow Hand to Hold: 

facebook.com/HANDtoHOLD

Instagram: @handtohold

Twitter: @NICUHandtoHold

Episode 47: Intentional Motherhood - Bringing Home Your NICU Baby With Other Children at Home 0
Oct 18, 2022

Guest: Lee Cordon of Do Say Give

  • Lee discusses her diagnosis of PPROM and the premature birth of two of her daughters.
  • How she handled bringing home NICU babies with other children at home
  • Intentional motherhood
  • The importance of reading, especially to preemies
  • How to set a routine that works for your family
  • A note on breastfeeding

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The NICU is hard. We’re here to help. 

Hand to Hold® is a national nonprofit dedicated to providing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents with personalized emotional support, educational resources and community before, during and after their baby’s NICU stay. NICU support is available at no cost to NICU parents in English & Spanish.

Learn more or get support at handtohold.org

Follow Hand to Hold: 

facebook.com/HANDtoHOLD

Instagram: @handtohold

Twitter: @NICUHandtoHold

Episode 46: Self Care and Postpartum Depression 0
Oct 7, 2022

Guest: Shifra Mehl

  • Shifra describes her own experience with postpartum depression
  • She discusses how this experience led her to begin Eim Leah
  • What Eim Leah does to support new moms
  • The importance of self-care for new moms
  • Self-care techniques
 

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The NICU is hard. We’re here to help. 

Hand to Hold® is a national nonprofit dedicated to providing neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) parents with personalized emotional support, educational resources and community before, during and after their baby’s NICU stay. NICU support is available at no cost to NICU parents in English & Spanish.

Learn more or get support at handtohold.org

Follow Hand to Hold: 

facebook.com/HANDtoHOLD

Instagram: @handtohold

Twitter: @NICUHandtoHold

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