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Newborn Medicine Video Consults Now Available

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Parents can have online visits with me (a pediatrician who specializes in newborn care) from the comfort of their own living rooms!

Unlimited Phone Call, Text, and Email Packages Now Available

I am excited to announce that I am now offering parents the option to purchase a package that includes phone calls, text messages, and emails with me. This service, which gives parents unlimited access to me for newborn and neonatology advice and guidance, can be purchased in one-week intervals.

NICU Awareness Month

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.

My Inspiration for Starting Primrose

This photo of my kids was taken when they started back to school last week. They are now in 7th, 5th, 4th, and 1st grades, but there was a period of time when all 4 of them were 6 years old and younger! It sometimes feels like that was decades ago, and at other times feels like it was just the other day that I was heading in to be induced with my oldest after my water was broken for too long.

Project Preemie

I have recently become involved with Project Preemie, a rapidly growing Cleveland-based, parent-led advocacy group for parents of preemies and NICU graduates.  I will be available to members and followers as a parent resource via answering questions, writing blog posts, and helping to connect families to local resources.

How my visits differ from home nurse visits

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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