The Milky Way: A collaborative path to improve breast milk...
Supporting breastfeeding has always been a top priority in our NICU at Meir Medical Center in Kfar-Saba, Israel. We are lucky enough to have...
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Supporting breastfeeding has always been a top priority in our NICU at Meir Medical Center in Kfar-Saba, Israel. We are lucky enough to have...
Along the entrance corridor to our NICU, flat television screens show colorful pictures of our premature babies, as NICU patients and graduates of all...
When they announced 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, as a nurse I felt honoured and humbled to be recognised by...
Part 2. My Impressions as a “Young” NICU Nurse In Hebrew, a new nurse in a unit or ward is often called a “young”...
Part 1. My reflections as a veteran nurse on the evolution of NIDCAP Care in our NICU I retired from work recently. I started...
I joined the NIDCAP Federation International in 2017 after attending their annual NIDCAP Trainers Meeting in Edmonton, Canada. NIDCAP stands for Newborn Individualized Developmental...
Admission to the neonatal unit occurs during a sensitive period of development. The first 1,000 days of life from conception to age three is...
Just 7 days earlier, I had an OBGYN visit. After a great visit, I asked other moms of multiples if they thought I would...
Tuve la oportunidad de tener a mis trillizos en el año 1999 en Londres, Inglaterra. Nacieron de 29 semanas de gestación en el Hospital...
In 2008, following the deaths of my children, I went home from the hospital feeling empty and broken-hearted. I simply wanted to close my...
This month marks a major transition in my life. I am retiring from WakeMed, where for 30 years I have served as the Pediatric...
As members of the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care Program (NIDCAP) family know all too well, preterm birth is a global challenge with developmental and...
Leaving the secure if somewhat claustrophobic bubble of the NICU after three months was tinged with many conflicting emotions. We so desperately wanted to be...
“No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human...
Feeding is a developmental milestone for babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) – both for those born prematurely, and for those born...