Posts: Bonding

How to Bond With Your NICU Baby

How to Bond With Your NICU Baby

Bonding with your NICU baby is not easy, but it is crucial not only to the infant’s health, but to your own.  Parent interaction with a full-term baby is often immediate: holding, feeding, soothing. But when the unexpected happens and your baby is instead taken to the...
5 Reasons to do Kangaroo Care with Your Baby

5 Reasons to do Kangaroo Care with Your Baby

If you’re in the NICU, chances are your medical team will encourage you to participate in skin-to-skin care with your baby, also known as kangaroo care. Kangaroo care has many positive benefits for both parents and babies, could result in a shorter NICU stay,...
Bonding with Your NICU Baby at Home

Bonding with Your NICU Baby at Home

by Dr. Lisa Michelle Noll, Pediatric psychologist at Texas Children’s Hospital When we are pregnant, we dream of the first minutes and hours after birth, holding, kissing, and caring for our newborn baby. Attaching to and bonding with our newborn baby seems natural,...