Tag: Family-Centered Care
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Life After the NICU: Survival Through Sustained Momentum
Leaving the NICU is often framed as the goal. It feels like a milestone you fight toward until you finally reach it and realize it is not an ending at all. It is a transition into something far less structured. Inside the NICU, everything is monitored. There is a team. There is a plan, even…
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When a Mother Isn’t Trusted: Parent Experience in the NICU
By that point in the NICU, my daughter was more stable, but we were in the part that lingers—the feeding, the waiting, the slow stretch before discharge. I had been changing her, holding her, and learning her cues. Not perfectly, but consistently. I wasn’t new to it anymore. One day, I was in the middle…
The Neuro Care Bridge 