Understanding the NICU Web App

​​Parents with limited time can utilize this web app to effectively educate themselves and their families in understanding the ins and outs of your baby's time in the NICU. This curriculum helps families feel supported and empowered throughout their NICU journey.

What you will learn

  • Importance of Breastmilk: Pumping and breastmilk information
  • NICU Staff & Equipment: First impressions, NICU team, communicating with NICU staff, medical equipment
  • Premature Babies: Defining prematurity, characteristics, behaviors, long-term development
  • Medical Conditions in the NICU: Common health conditions, additional syndromes and birth defects, if baby needs surgery
  • Interacting With Your Baby: Spending time together, healing touch, kangaroo care, reading cues, signs of overstimulation
  • Feeding Your Baby: What NICU babies eat, feeding methods, cue-based feeding, feeding at breast
  • Self-Care for NICU Parents: Emotions, physical self-care, getting support, siblings
  • Preparing for Discharge: Requirements for discharge, rooming-in, preparing for the trip home
  • Life at Home: Crying & comforting, feeding & feeding challenges, introducing solid food, safe sleep & sleep cycles, play & development

Web App Information

This curriculum is available as a downloadable web app, click below to buy now!  After purchase a Blossom staff member will contact you within 48 business hours to provide you a code for web app access. 
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