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The path to parenting your baby in the NICU just got a little bit easier.

When you find out your baby needs the NICU, everything changes, but it can still be beautiful. Learn to parent with purpose, and care for your NICU baby in a way that will nourish the healthiest and most positive NICU experience possible, starting today.

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Caring for your Baby in the NICU e-guide

Shop the Born to Bloom® NICU

Each of these guides are part of my Born to Bloom® in the NICU family program (used in NICUs around the world), and focus on building your confidence in 4 important areas of parenting in the NICU. Each guide walks you through a specific NICU parenting experience, and includes activities and questions you can engage in with your baby's care team.

You don't have to watch from a distance. Learn exactly how to be there for your baby right now, and feel encouraged along the way.

Communicating with Your Baby in the NICU e-Guide

Comforting Your Baby in the NICU e-Guide

Connecting with Your Baby in the NICU e-Guide

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guides

  • 28-page PDF NICU guide 
  • Interactive learning activities, checklists, and checkpoints
  • Topics include NICU rounds and care times, understanding your baby's medical equipment, NICU rounds, diapering, dressing, holding, bathing, and feeding your baby.
  • 16-page PDF NICU guide 
  • Interactive learning activities, checklists, and checkpoints
  • Topics include your baby's "GO" and "PAUSE/STOP" cues, how to respond to your baby's pain or stress, and a cues cheat sheet.
  • 22-page PDF NICU guide 
  • Interactive learning activities, checklists, and checkpoints
  • Topics include types of NICU procedures, the process for comforting your baby with a care provider, 8 strategies to decrease your baby's pain and stress in the NICU.
  • 24-page PDF NICU guide 
  • Interactive learning activities, checklists, and checkpoints
  • Topics include connecting with your baby, opportunities for bonding, calming and managing your anxiety, and positive affirmation cards.

**All Born to Bloom NICU Guides are digital downloads and immediately available as a PDF upon purchase.

/ nicu parents say /

/ nicu parents say /

I feel prepared.

“Really, thank you so much for giving me the tools to have a better and healthier NICU experience. I feel so much more prepared to be a part of his experience instead of just feeling helpless and watching from a distance.”

You validated our NICU experience.

“Going through your content has completely validated many of our experiences and thoughts while living the NICU life!”

Hi, there!

As a certified NICU occupational therapist with a decade of experience caring for hundreds of medically fragile babies in the NICU, I'm here to help you learn the skills that will allow you to parent your baby with purpose and create the most positive NICU experience possible. Because you're not a bystander, you're a parent.

There are a lot of newborn courses and support out there, but your NICU parenting journey will have unique needs that general newborn care won't help you solve or understand.

If you want to learn how to navigate the NICU and be there for your baby in the most supportive ways possible, you're in the right place.

mama of my own nicu baby

nicu occupational therapist

advocate for parents in the nicu

I'm Katie Ross, OTD, OTR/L, NTMTC, CNT.

As a NICU OT and mom of 4 (with one NICU baby), my unique approach helps you create positive NICU parenting moments with your baby and build confidence in 4 core parenting areas. I call them the 4 "C"s. 

  1. Caring for your NICU baby: Confidence doing NICU care tasks (like diaper changes or bathtime in the NICU)
  2. Communicating with your NICU baby: Understanding your baby's behaviors
  3. Comforting your NICU baby: How to comfort your baby and decrease their stress during NICU procedures
  4. Connecting with your NICU baby: Managing anxiety and connecting with your baby

Join hundreds of purpose-filled NICU parents, today!

Caring for your Baby in the NICU E-Guide

Step into your NICU parenting journey with knowledge and skills unique to the NICU world.

Communicating with Your Baby in the NICU E-Guide

Comforting Your Baby in the NICU E-Guide

Connecting with Your Baby in the NICU E-Guide

buy now ($19)

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/ PARENTS SAY /

/ PARENTS SAY /

can't wait to love on my little guy!

“I’ve been reviewing the hand hug and can’t wait to love on my little guy and comfort him. Really, thank you so much for giving me tools to have a better and healthier NICU experience.”

Have questions? Please reach out and I'm happy to help.

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Let's help you get started creating the best NICU experiences possible.