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Melissa Johnson, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with 30 years of experience working in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at WakeMed in Raleigh, North Carolina, discusses parents’ concerns around whether their babies feel pain and what strategies can be used to support their infants. Dr. Johnson is also the mother of a daughter born prematurely.

Jennifer Degl, a mother of a daughter born extremely early, is an advocate for maternal and newborn health. In this film she talks about taking your baby home from the NICU.

Latoshia Rouse, a mother of four, including triplets who were born prematurely, talks about life after the NICU, for parents and babies.

gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Clinical Nurse Scientist and NIDCAP Master Trainer talks about how to prepare for discharge from the NICU.

James Helm, PhD, Senior NIDCAP Trainer and Director of the Carolina NIDCAP Training Center, explains the importance of sleep in the preterm infant and how to provide support to them while they sleep.

gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Clinical Nurse Scientist and NIDCAP Master Trainer describes the role and importance of nurturance and the parent-infant relationship in a baby’s growth and development.

Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior NIDCAP Trainer explains how learning to observe and listen to your baby will help you understand their needs and, in turn, help you to better support them.

Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior NIDCAP Trainer, talks about the importance of parent participation in the care of their infant while in the newborn intensive care unit.

Jennifer Degl, a mother of a daughter born extremely early, is an advocate for maternal and newborn health. In this film she offers some recommendations for parents who are new to the NICU.

Melissa Johnson, PhD, a pediatric psychologist with 30 years of experience working in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at WakeMed in Raleigh, North Carolina, offers encouragement to parents as they navigate the NICU. Dr. Johnson is also the mother of a daughter born prematurely.

James Helm, PhD, Senior NIDCAP Trainer and Director of the Carolina NIDCAP Training Center, explains the NIDCAP approach to care and its benefits to babies and their families.

James Helm, PhD, Senior NIDCAP Trainer and Director of the Carolina NIDCAP Training Center, describes the supportive nature of Developmental Care and the importance of parent participation in the care of their babies while in an intensive care setting.

gretchen Lawhon, PhD, RN, FAAN, Clinical Nurse Scientist and NIDCAP Master Trainer, draws on her many years of experience in the NICU setting and with the NIDCAP approach, to answer the questions that parents often ask regarding how they can help optimize their baby’s development.

Latoshia Rouse, a mother of four, including triplets who were born prematurely, talks about the benefits of Kangaroo Care, for parents and babies.

Dorothy Vittner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Senior NIDCAP Trainer, talks about the effects and importance of skin-to-skin holding.

Jennifer Degl, a mother of a daughter born extremely early, is an advocate for maternal and newborn health.  In this film she offers suggestions for the types of questions parents may want to ask upon their baby’s admission to the NICU.

Learn about NIDCAP Nursery Certification which recognizes a nursery’s demonstrated commitment to promote best short and long term development of all infants in their care. See why the NFI aspires for all newborns and families to receive hospital care in the relationship based, family integrated NIDCAP model.

Prematurely born, medically fragile and in critical need of nurturing care. One family’s experience with the life changing support of NIDCAP professionals as they navigate the necessary but often overwhelming early days of their infant’s new life and their new life as a family. NIDCAP insures that the ‘voice of the newborn’ is heard.

NIDCAP is short for the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program. In each episode, we bring to you Healthcare Professionals, Parents, and others to discuss best practices to support the health and development of infants and their families, and those that care for them, in intensive care hospital settings and beyond.