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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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DISCLAIMER.                                                       Photo credit: Images by Rosalinda, Lilia Faith Schwartz, Photographer, Devin Begley, and Christy Scherrer, bellymotherbaby
Blossom is not a Medical Provider and Does not Provide Medical Services.  It is understood by all persons who use Blossom’s  services that: (a) Blossom is not a medical provider and does not render medical or other health care services or treatments to any and all persons who use Blossom’s services and Blossom’s services are not intended to or shall be interpreted as imposing, any duty or obligation to provide such health care services; (b) Blossom is not in any way responsible for the health care that is delivered by a health care provider to any and all persons who use Blossom’s services; (c) health care providers are solely responsible for the health care they deliver to any and all persons using Blossom’s services; and (d) health care providers are not Blossom’s agents or employees.