What are the most common questions you had when you were bringing your baby home from the NICU?
I am writing an article called “Bringing Your Preemie Home: Parent FAQs” for the American Academy of Pediatrics website healthychildren.org this month and want to make sure that I include parents’ most common concerns .
You can email your suggestions to me at primrosenewborncare@gmail.com, or answer in the comments section of my IG or FB posts. Thanks in advance for your help!
I am now able to provide newborn telemedicine services to families throughout the state of Ohio. For more info on the benefits and potential uses of telemedicine, please check out this link. Thank you!
NICU Awareness Month always sneaks up on me because it’s September, which is both “back to school” time and I am usually “on-service” in the NICU during this month. Right now I am in the middle of a three week stretch of taking care of preemies in the huge Level 4 NICU at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital in Cleveland.
It’s not unusual for some of the smallest and sickest preemies to qualify for home nursing visits. These visits are usually 20-30 min long, occur within the first few weeks after discharge, and are covered by insurance. In most cases, larger preterm infants and full-term infants do not qualify for these types of visit. My home visits are different than RN visits for all of the following reasons:
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