When your baby is born, you expect your experience to go just like all the parenting books have taught you. You’ll have an easy delivery, followed by a few days resting with your beautiful baby in a comfortable maternity room. It doesn’t always go that way, however. And that’s where the neonatal intensive care unit […]
For the past six years, WakeMed’s NICU has participated in the Kangaroo Challenge from Sunnybrook Hospital in Canada. This is an international challenge to see which hospital can log the most hours participating in kangaroo care. Each year for 15 days, we ‘challenge’ our parents with a Kangaroo-A-Thon to kangaroo their babies as usual—but this […]
Download a printable version of this blog post. For the past five years, WakeMed’s NICU has participated in the Kangaroo Challenge from Sunnybrook Hospital in Canada. This is an international challenge to see which hospital can log the most hours participating in kangaroo care. Each year for 15 days, we ‘challenge’ our parents with a […]
Download a printable version of this blog post. In September of 2017, a group of WakeMed NICU providers, led by Dr. Claudia Tolentino Cadet, visited the Central American country of Belize for seven days to share education about neonatal developmental care, nutrition, and respiratory care. The trip was sponsored by the World Pediatric Project, a […]
My name is Shanda Smallwood, and I am a proud mother of a former 24-weeker. It gives me great joy to share a little of our story. On November 7, 2014, I called my doctor and informed her that something wasn’t feeling right, as every 10 to 15 minutes, I was getting a throbbing feeling […]
This year, the WakeMed NICU is hosting a Kangaroo-A-Thon from May 8th to May 19th. The Kangaroo-A-Thon is part of a larger, nationwide Kangaroo Challenge in which hospitals from around the world compete to encourage kangaroo care between new parents and their babies. Learn more about Kangaroo Care at WakeMed. What is a Kangaroo Care? Also […]
Before we helped establish a NICU library at WakeMed, our connection to WakeMed began with our own NICU story… During most of my pregnancy with my son, Pearson, I had placenta previa. On the morning of October 29, I was finally cleared for a vaginal delivery at his 36-week checkup. Well, apparently the check went […]
Premature birth, or birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy, is the leading cause of death among America’s newborns (source: March of Dimes). That’s why World Prematurity Day, observed on Monday, November 17, is so important. It’s a day to raise awareness for the issue of premature birth and to gain more support for the research […]
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