SPECIALISTS
Blooming Littles
Blooming Littles is an online resource committed to educating and equipping NICU caregivers. Katie, a NICU occupational therapist, provides tools and education that are practical, hands-on, and evidence-based. Blooming Little’s mission is to foster positive NICU experiences, to support infant development, and to build confidence among NICU caregivers.
Baby Beginnings
Are you bringing your baby home from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit(NICU)? We can help you! We started Baby Beginnings because of the families and babies that we help take care of in the NICU. These families and babies are they strongest humans we know!! We saw how stressed and overwhelmed the families were when their baby was ready to come home from the NICU, and wanted to be there for them to help support, encourage, and guide them. Baby Beginnings, LLC offers a NICU Discharge Class for this purpose--think of it as bringing your NICU nurse home with you!
Stone Speech Therapy
Jessica Janocha is a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist in New Jersey. She specializes in the areas of feeding, swallowing, and language development for infants and young children with special healthcare needs. As a mom to a former 33-week preemie who spent over two weeks in the NICU, she has learned that it is incredibly important to surround yourself with people who can understand you and your child’s unique needs. Jessica is passionate about helping babies and families bond through feeding and play. At Stone Speech Therapy, she aspires to provide families with the support and guidance to help their child be happy and healthy at home and beyond. Jessica hopes to continue the conversation and become a part of your village.
NICU Know
Your Instagram glossary for all things NICU, from a NICU RN with 🇨🇦🇺🇲 experience.
MENTAL HEALTH
Jessica Knight Coaching
Jessica Knight is our go-to coach for everything motherhood and postpartum. Click to set up a session- tell her Penelope Project sent you!
The Break Through Mama
Anese Barnett is a perinatal mental health therapist in Virginia specialized in supporting NICU mothers and women with a high-risk pregnancy, She helps NICU moms transition home with ease and find healing, calm, and joy after the NICU. Anese also supports women with a high-risk pregnancy to manage anxiety so that they can find peace through pregnancy and plan to master motherhood. She is the mother of a NICU warrior turned rambunctious toddler who fuels her passion for serving mothers.
NON-PROFITS
Graham’s Foundation
Graham’s Foundation’s support programs are designed to meet the unique needs of families after preterm birth.
NICU, transition home, and remembrance care package programs
Trained preemie parent mentors available 24/7 via email, phone, and text
MyPreemie, the market-leading app for parents of premature babies
Online communities with tens of thousands engaged parents making new connections
Carter’s Cause
We're on a mission to provide resources and support to parents grieving from infant loss, parents living the NICU journey, as well as the family and friends who form their support group.
We'll share tools to help everyone - parents, extended family, friends, and the world.
Oliver’s Little Warriors
NICU CARE PACKAGES
We fill our NICU Care Packages with essential items to help families through the difficult journey of the NICU.
Care Packages provide an assortment of items; lotion, hand sanitizer, lip balm, a snack/or holiday themed candy, and a gift for baby (a holiday book or swaddle blanket).
When a care package is gifted to a NICU family, it can change their entire day, knowing other people are caring for them and cheering on their family!
Brittany’s Baskets of Hope
At Brittany’s Baskets of Hope, we welcome new babies with Down syndrome to the world with open arms and joy in our hearts! Our founder, Brittany Schiavone, is a creative, sassy, and fabulous woman who happens to have Down syndrome. With Brittany at the helm, we’re on a mission to spread resources, hope, and love by sending “baskets of hope” to families that have recently welcomed a new baby with Down syndrome. When parents get the news that their little one will be born with Down syndrome, they often hear, “I’m sorry.” We’re not sorry! We say, “Congratulations!” Since delivering our first basket of hope in October 2016, we’ve now sent over 1,100 baskets of hope to families in all 50 states, including many to families whose journeys began in the NICU.
NEC Society
The NEC Society is a non-profit organization that brings together families, clinicians, and researchers who are committed to building a world without necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) by accelerating research, advocacy, and education.
Project NICU
Project NICU is dedicated to supporting families with children in the NICU and the medical professionals who care for them.
VETERAN NICU PARENTS
Lily’s Little Lungs
Our Instagram, @lilyslittlelungs follows the journey of Lily, a surviving twin micropreemie born at 24 weeks. Lily spent 256 days in the NICU and came home with a trach, ventilator, oxygen, and gtube. We share information about transition from NICU to home, as well as tips and tricks for medically fragile parents.
Knocking On Motherhood
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Preemie World
Support for preemies at every stage
Parents of premature infants are often caught unprepared by early birth, and can quickly become overwhelmed by their new child’s needs and the unfamiliar world of the NICU.
These moms and dads are thrust into a high-stress, high-stakes situation where they are expected to make decisions for their child based on medical information they have no prior exposure to. We understand the singular and often difficult position parents of premature children find themselves in after experiencing early birth.
Neonatal professionals don’t always have enough time to seek out resources to learn how to relay sensitive subjects to parents. We provide that coaching to the dedicated men and women of the NICU. We also strive to celebrate those who give so much of their time to fight the effects of premature birth.
Our mission is to build a bridge between the parenting and professional worlds that surround premature infants.
NICU Natter
NICU Natter is an Instagram community for NICu parents to share their stories, offer advice and provide support to others. They have a NICU Natter buddy system in place to facilitate this for new parents and connecting them with ex NICU parents.
Preemiehood
Sarah is a mother of four boys all born premature. She made Preemiehood to help raise awareness and give support to the preemie community. Posts are made up of funny, emotional, educational, and relatable experiences. Sarah also shares questions from others and share other preemie journey's. Preemiehood is a feel good page that helps everyone on their journey through the NICU and beyond.