NICU Now Episode 3: The Importance of Bonding with Your Medically Fragile Child

01/25/17 • 21 min

NICU Babies Parent Support

In this episode:

Kelli discusses the difference between bonding with a newborn just after delivery and bonding with a medically fragile infant in the NICU.
How bonding benefits both the baby and the parent.
How parents who may be suffering from PPD may find it more difficult to bond with their baby, and how parents can process their emotions so they can start the bonding process.
The benefits of parents being integrated into their baby’s care in the NICU

This episode is sponsored by Huggies.

In this episode:

Kelli discusses the difference between bonding with a newborn just after delivery and bonding with a medically fragile infant in the NICU.
How bonding benefits both the baby and the parent.
How parents who may be suffering from PPD may find it more difficult to bond with their baby, and how parents can process their emotions so they can start the bonding process.
The benefits of parents being integrated into their baby’s care in the NICU

This episode is sponsored by Huggies.

Previous Episode

NICU Now Episode 2: From Powerless to Empowered

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 one had for your pregnancy/baby.
Guilt about fears of caring for a disabled child.

This episode is sponsored by Prolacta Bioscience.

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NICU Now Episode 4: Finding Your Footing as Parents in the Zero Zone

Joining us to talk about finding your footing as parents in the Zero Zone is Kelley Benham French. Kelley is a professor of practice in journalism at Indiana University. A former reporter and editor for the Tampa Bay Times, she was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for “Never Let Go,” a series about her Daughter Juniper’s early birth at 23 weeks and six days. She is the co-author along with her husband of the book, Juniper, The Girl Who Was Born Too Soon, that chronicles their challenges with infertility, and the fear, sadness, exhaustion and joy of their daughter’s 196 day NICU journey.