by Brittany Hunt | Sep 21, 2017 | NICU Awareness Month, Preemies
Continuing our emphasis on the Neonatal Intensive Care Units for NICU Awareness Month. It can be quite scary to see your child with all those lines, monitors, and wires hooked up to them. As we showed in part one, these machines are vital to helping preemies and other...
by Brittany Hunt | Sep 19, 2017 | NICU Awareness Month
Parents that have babies that end up in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) are often unfamiliar with all the machines used to help their child survive and thrive after birth. As a part of NICU Awareness Month, we will be doing a brief series on the lifesaving and...
by Brittany Hunt | Sep 14, 2017 | Newborn Care, NICU Awareness Month, Preemies
For families of premature babies, the first few weeks and months of life can be extremely stressful. The expert care of the staff in the NICU means that your child is in the best possible hands while in the hospital but how should you care for them when it is time to...
by Brittany Hunt | Sep 13, 2017 | Lifestyle, Newborn Care
There is no debating the fact that Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU’s) across the country save lives. A 2015 article from Science Daily cited that “The neonatal mortality rate has fallen more than fourfold (from 18.73 per 1,000 live births to 4.04 per 1,000 live...
by Brittany Hunt | Sep 9, 2017 | Newborn Care, Parenting Tips
According to Stanford Children’s Health, drowning is the 3rd leading cause of death for children one year and younger. For new parents, the most surprising aspect of this statistic is the fact that the majority of these drowning incidents happened in the bathtub....
