Scope of NICU Parent Support Blog and Site

A recent study of NICU parents found a large percentage of those completing the survey wanted more information made available to them about the organization of the NICU and whom to talk with about any questions and concerns that they had. One mother wrote,

Most parents in this situation want and need information as well as support! There should be a much more extensive library or articles and information accessible to parents.

The blog is here along with the NICU Parent Support website, the "My Baby's in the NICU: Now What?" e-Book (both due to be released by the end of June) and the series of NICU Parent Support Lens on Squidoo to provide information, encouragement and support for NICU parents as they find a way of making it through the NICU experience.

All of these resources have been created by a former NICU Parent, physician and professional educator to inform, reassure, calm, encourage and comfort parents coping with the admission of their baby to the Neonatal Intensive Care NICU.

Scope of the NICU Parent Support Site
The blog, the website and the lenses will cover many different aspects of the NICU experience from surviving the early days filled with shock and anxiety to the apprehension that parents often feel when taking their newborn home.

• Information - Articles, Research, Reflections from a Former NICU Parent
  
• Resources - Links to beneficial resources, other sites, latest research and products
  
• Encouragement - Weekly Encouraging Messages are posted to the blog.
  
• Inspiration - Messages and Links to other sites, other stories of inspiration
  
• Comfort - Comforting Messages and Thoughts are posted to the blog.
  
• Support - Through the blog, the website, the Squidoo lenses and the e-Book.
  

Several lenses have been created at Squidoo for NICU Parents:

• NICU Parent Support Site Lens - The overall organizing lens
• My Baby's in the NICU: Now What?
• Surviving Your NICU Experience - Advice for NICU Parents and Families
  
• CarePages - Connecting Friends and Family During Times of Challenge
  

Resources for NICU Parents Whose Baby is Dying
There are also resources, comfort and support for those parents who never get to take their newborns home, since some babies live out their entire short life in the NICU. Resources, suggestions and comfort are provided for those parents who must cope with the fact that their NICU baby is dying and then must face the death of a NICU baby.

• Information - Articles, Research, Reflections from a Former NICU Parent
  
• Resources - Links to beneficial resources, other sites, latest research and products
  
• Comfort - Comforting Messages and Thoughts are posted to the blog.
• Hope - Messages of hope and links to other sites, other stories of hope, even at the end of life
  
• Support - Through the blog, the website, the Squidoo lenses and the e-Book.

Two lenses have been created at Squidoo for NICU Parents whose Babies are dying:

• My NICU Baby is Dying: Now What?
• My NICU Baby has Died: Now What?