Optimizing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in NICU Patients with Occupational Therapy - Part II

If you are a current or former NICU parent, you will want to listen to this episode. There are so many pieces of information you receive as a NICU parent while your baby is in the NICU and it continues once you bring your baby home. Tune in to hear great recommendations on how to best advocate and help your child while they are in the NICU and especially once they are home to optimize their neurodevelopmental outcomes! 

For our 17th podcast episode, I continued my discussion with Tracey Kondrasuk-Branker a certified Neonatal Occupational Therapist who has over 22 years of experience with children from birth to 3 years.

In this episode, Tracey explains why she started her early developmental online consulting company. We discuss the importance of providing parents with resources and trying to bridge the common gap for NICU families between their time in the NICU and their transition to home.

For NICU patients, their follow-up appointments are vital to their long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. Appropriate follow-ups also help NICU infants achieve all of their developmental milestones.

We also discuss the importance of finding appropriate support groups as well as other local, state and national programs that will ensure children receive the best care possible and that all parents feel supported. We provide names of some of the trustworthy NICU support groups currently available that will help parents with the common parental feelings of fear, anxiety, and loneliness that occur once they bring their NICU infants home. 

We also review how imperative it is that if a parent feels that there is an issues that is not being addressed properly, to never stop advocating for them as well as steps you can take to get the help they need!

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