Pictures of Hope is a wonderful, heartfelt resource for NICU Parents. What makes this organization more special is that many of the people involved are former NICU Parents. This charitable organization of professional photographers from the United States and Canada provide complimentary, documentary-style, photography sessions to babies in the…[Read more]

“Hope” is an emotion that is difficult to find during trying times. Finding Hope in the NICU can be challenging for NICU parents concerned about whether or not their NICU baby or babies will survive. One way to find hope is to hear or read stories of other babies who were in the NICU and have gone [...]

With a baby in the NICU, often times the last thing that anyone is focusing on is figuring out a gift to give to the new baby. Even though it is hard on parents having a baby in the NICU, it also hard for NICU parents not to feel the support of family and friends, because [...]

Christmas is a time when people think they will be “merry” and have “happy holidays” but these can be challenging emotions for NICU parents to feel. They are spending their baby’s first Christmas in the hospital, in the NICU, rather than at home with the family. Fortunately, there are people who understand the situation that NICU parents [...]

Having a NICU baby is difficult enough for NICU Parents, but when that birth and hospitalization coincide with a holiday like Christmas, it can make it even more challenging. Seeing everyone going around being cheerful can make it hard for NICU Parents to cope with their own reality – being in the NICU with their newborn. By letting [...]

When a baby gets admitted to the NICU many times everyone focuses on the health of the baby and the mother (depending on the circumstances of the delivery). Often the last thing on people’s minds are giving a gift to the NICU Parents or to the new NICU baby. Yet the fact that a baby has been [...]

If you are looking for a unique and inexpensive gift for a mother for the holidays, mother’s day, birthday or any other occasion, look at Water Blessing Bookmarks. The Water Blessing Bookmarks also make great gifts for friends, co-worker, colleague or grandmother. What Mom doesn’t want to feel that she has “Boundless Energy.” The Water Blessing [...]

Thanksgiving is a day set aside to express our gratitude and give thanks, yet for parents who have a baby in the NICU at Thanksgiving, taking time to give thanks can be a challenging. For this Thanksgiving, I searched for ways that other people have found to help NICU Parents give thanks even when their Thanksgiving is [...]

The Virtual Human Milk Collection Campaign is being sponsored by the Medela company to honor the March of Dimes’ National Prematurity Awareness Month and the thousands of dedicated Neonatal healthcare professionals nationwide. The Medela company focuses on helping mothers, including NICU mothers to successfully breastfeed their babies and to do…[Read more]

More NICU Parents (who are also Grey’s Anatomy fans) may want to use Kangaroo Care as a treatment for their NICU Baby after watching a recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy. This week the top rated Abc.com show featured a story line about Kangaroo Care in the November 5, 2009 episode “Invest in Love.”   While the television episode [...]

Keeping some kind of a written record of your baby’s NICU adventure is recommended way of making it a bit easier for parents to cope with the NICU. Two ways of keeping a record are by keeping a written diary or by creating a scrapbook. Many of the traditional baby scrapbook resources do not lend themselves to creating [...]

According to the March of Dimes report on premature births, nearly 13 million babies worldwide are born prematurely each year. This is about 9.6 percent of babies experiencing a preterm birth. Half a million of these premature births in the United States. Of those babies born prematurely more than one million die worldwide.  On Tuesday November…[Read more]

National estimates are that one in 10 babies born in the United States ends up admitted to a NICU (newborn or neonatal intensive care unit). These newborns are admitted because of premature birth or because they are sick newborns, with other medical conditions. To help the families of these NICU babies, the March of Dimes, the leading [...]

Many NICU’s hold an annual event to celebrate the lives of the little patients and their families who spend many, many hours in their hospitals. The NICU my youngest was hospitalized at holds their reunion to coincide with Halloween, so former NICU patients can come dressed in their fancy Halloween costumes. These reunions are a special time [...]