HeyJaredBeyond Beeps & Hums
Beyond Beeps & Hums is a podcast created to support and empower families on their NICU journey — and in the life that follows.Hosted by Anandé Ferreira, a two-time preemie NICU mama and pediatric occupational therapist from @playmoreot.Each episode explores the complexities…
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To the NICU Nurses Who Saw Us (opens the original)
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I spend a lot of time on this podcast talking honestly about the difficult parts of NICU. The things the medical model can miss. The trauma, the separation, the impact on parents and where neonatal care can and should do better. But NICU Awareness Month also gives us an opportunity to recognise the people within these spaces who get it profoundly right. Across my two NICU journeys, there are nurses I still remember. During our second NICU journey, the nurses I watched run towards a hospital duri
When Your Heart Is in Two Places: Siblings During a NICU Stay (opens the original)
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Having a baby in NICU can create a particular kind of impossible pull when another child is waiting for you at home. When you’re beside the incubator, part of you is thinking about the child you’ve left behind. And when you finally get home, part of you is still in the NICU. How do you mother children who need you in two different places? As part of NICU Awareness Month, and in recognition of Sibling Support Day on September 29, this episode of Beyond Beeps & Hums turns our attention to the brot
When the Cues Are Missing: Finding Connection in the NICU (opens the original)
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What happens when the sensory cues a mother’s brain expects from her baby are delayed, limited or replaced by NICU? Following last week’s conversation with Lottie King about matrescence and the maternal brain in NICU, this reflective episode asks a practical question: When some of those cues are missing, what can we actually do? We explore different ways parents can create bridges of connection within the realities of intensive care, through scent, touch, voice, looking, holding and everyday car
When Matrescence Meets the NICU The maternal brain, trauma and becoming a mother in intensive care (opens the original)
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We spend a great deal of time discussing the vulnerability of babies born prematurely or admitted to the NICU and rightly so. But far less is said about the mother whose brain, body, identity and relationships are also undergoing an enormous transition. In this episode, Anandé is joined by Lottie King, a NICU and baby-loss mother, nervous-system educator, charity founder and CEO, and master’s student at King’s College London studying the neuroscience and psychology of mental health. Together, th
Hospital Corridors and Missed Playdates (opens the original)
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In this short reflective episode, we explore the invisible emotional load of medical parenting and why repeated hospital visits, uncertainty and constant decision-making ask so much of a parent’s nervous system. And while there can be enormous gratitude for the care our children receive, there can also be grief for an experience that unfolded differently than we imagined. In this episode we explore: Why medical parenting carries an invisible cognitive and emotional load How hospital appointments
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