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26. Season One Finale: Rehumanizing the NICU: A Vision for the Future of Care
The NICU is a place of extraordinary medicine — where fragile lives are stabilized and miracles unfold every day. But survival is only part of the story. In this final...
25. Pumping with Confidence: Tips and Tools for NICU Parents
Pumping in the NICU is about so much more than milk. It’s about logistics, exhaustion, hope, grief, and doing the best you can in one of the most intense seasons of pa...
24. From Burnout to Impact: Helping Nurses Change Systems Without Leaving the Bedside
So many nurses feel the tension between caring deeply and feeling powerless inside broken systems — especially in high-stakes environments like the NICU. Burnout isn’t...
23. Tubes and Wires and Tape, Oh My! How to Manage the Logistics of Taking Your NICU Baby Home with Medical Equipment
For many NICU families, discharge doesn’t mean leaving the medical world behind — it means bringing it home. Oxygen tanks, feeding tubes, monitors, supplies, and endle...
22. Maternity Benefits Made Simple: Navigating Insurance for Families & Doulas
Insurance is one of the most confusing — and emotionally charged — parts of pregnancy, postpartum, and the NICU experience. Bills pile up, coverage feels unclear, and ...
21. Holding Space in the Hardest Moments: Supporting NICU Families Through Loss
Losing a baby in or after the NICU is a grief few can imagine — and one that deserves more compassionate, trauma-informed support than most families receive.In this ep...
20. Inside the Mono-Mono Twin NICU Experience: Trauma, Resilience & Becoming a NICU Doula
Some NICU journeys begin long before delivery — and Natascha Bohmann’s story is one of them. After a high-risk mono-mono twin pregnancy, a lengthy inpatient hospitaliz...
19. The Art of Waiting: Helping Siblings (and Ourselves) Through the NICU
Waiting is one of the hardest parts of the NICU — waiting for updates, waiting for milestones, waiting to finally bring your baby home. But in those quiet, uncertain m...
18. From Crisis to Care: A Social Worker’s Journey Into Postpartum & NICU Support
Stepping into the NICU can feel like landing in a completely different world — one with its own language, routines, and cast of characters. In this episode, I’m breaki...
17. Supporting Tiny Bodies: Understanding Oral Ties, Motor Delays & Early Intervention for NICU Graduates
In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Rachael Carreon — a pediatric physical therapist and infant development expert who has supported babies and families for more than a...
16. More Than Survival: Parenting a Medically Complex Baby After the NICU
The NICU may end at discharge, but for many families, the journey is far from over. Life after the NICU often means learning to navigate complex medical needs, therapi...
15. Sleep After the NICU: Building Healthy Rest Routines for Preemies & Medically Complex Babies
Sleep after the NICU is complicated — not just for babies, but for parents, too. Preemies have different developmental timelines, different sensory needs, and often, d...
14. The Top 5 Myths About the NICU—Busted!
There are so many myths about the NICU and while most come from a place of love, they can leave families feeling confused, unprepared, or even ashamed for not matching...
13. How to Manage the NICU with Siblings at Home
When one baby is in the NICU and another is at home, parents face a kind of split that’s hard to describe — the heart wants to be in two places at once.In this episode...
12. High-Risk Pregnancy Support: An L&D Nurse + Doula’s Guide to Confident Birth
When a pregnancy becomes high-risk, fear can take over — for both families and the professionals supporting them. But with the right tools, mindset, and communication,...
11. The NICU Translated: CPAP
If you’ve ever walked into the NICU and seen your baby wearing a little hat and tubing on their nose, you’ve likely seen CPAP — one of the most common (and misundersto...
10. What the Heck is a NICU Doula (and Why Families Deserve One)
If you’ve never heard of a NICU doula, you’re not alone — even many birth professionals don’t know this role exists. But NICU doulas are filling a huge gap in support ...
9. Flat Spots & Torticollis: A Pediatric PT’s Guide for NICU Families
Guest: Dr. Jessica Smith, PT, DPT — Pediatric Physical Therapist & Founder of Rocketship PT 🌐 https://rocketshippt.com 📱 Instagram → @rocketship_pt 🎥 YouTube → Rocke...
8. From NICU Mom to Bedside Doula: How One Parent is Changing NICU Care
Most parents leave the NICU hoping they’ll never have to return. For Jillian, walking back into those hospital doors meant something entirely different — she was retur...
7. Finding Light After Loss: Mahaley Patel on Creating Your NICU Story
The NICU journey is full of emotions — joy, grief, gratitude, trauma, and everything in between. For some families, those emotions continue long after discharge, espec...