NICU Nook is the first and only comprehensive online course for parents with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
A comprehensive online parenting course is finally available for parents who are managing the shock and stress of having an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit. The launch of NICU Nook, an online course and community specifically designed for NICU parents, fills the obvious gap in the parenting world and provides an important space for parents with unique stressors and needs.
- (1888PressRelease) June 02, 2023 - NICU Nook is the first and only comprehensive online course for parents with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
A clinical psychologist and pediatric nurse practitioner guide parents through each step of their NICU journeys with 35+ bite-sized, self-paced videos packed with information, demonstrations, skills, and support.
NICU Nook officially launched its essential online course to guide and support NICU parents through the challenges of parenting a premature or medically fragile baby in the NICU environment.
Stephanie Simon and Amanda Neilan, a clinical psychologist and pediatric nurse practitioner, joined together to create what they saw was missing from the parenting world: a comprehensive online course for NICU parents. Stephanie and Amanda work specifically with pregnant families and new parents all day, every day. They see the rise in online parenting courses and social media resources as tremendously helpful in normalizing the not-so-glamorous parts about delivering a baby, caring for newborns, making a million parenting decisions every day, experiencing a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder (PMAD), and much more. But what they kept asking themselves was, when are NICU parents going to get an online course that has helped so many other new parents?! That’s how NICU Nook came to be.
NICU Nook’s essential course for NICU parents includes 35+ bite-sized (2-10 min) videos that parents can view on their own schedule and at their own pace. Their videos consist of live demonstrations, explanations of skills and examples of them being used in action, important information about the NICU, and much more. Amanda shares, “We know how busy and stressful it can be to manage visiting the NICU with other responsibilities. In designing NICU Nook, we envisioned parents unwinding from a stressful day in the NICU, pressing play on one of our videos, and feeling a bit of relief that they have two women to guide them through each stressor and milestone that the NICU brings.”
NICU Nook’s essential course also includes downloadable PDFs that explain the skills that Stephanie and Amanda share in their videos. Parents can view these handouts at bedside or on the go. The resource that parents seem to value most is their Baby Diary, which encourages parents to reflect on the ways in which they and their baby have grown over time. “Parents often feel so defeated by setbacks in the NICU, understandably so!” Stephanie exclaims. “The Baby Diary is a helpful way for parents to focus on their baby’s strengths and celebrate the milestones that they have achieved. This practice can empower parents in their role as parent in the NICU and instill hope for their baby’s future growth and development.”
NICU Nook also offers a community for NICU parents and one-on-one support with Nurse Amanda. More specifically, upon purchasing NICU Nook’s essential course, parents have access to a secure online platform where they can connect with other NICU parents. This online community includes subgroups for NICU dads, parents of micropreemies, parents of multiples, specific pediatric medical conditions, and more. And, if parents don’t see a subgroup that fits their unique needs, they can request to start their own subgroup! Additionally, parents have access to one-on-one sessions with Nurse Amanda where they can address specific challenges with caregiving, interacting with their care team, advocating for their baby, setting boundaries with visitors, and much more.
NICU parents who purchase NICU Nook’s essential course can expect to feel more confident with navigating the ins and outs of the NICU, communicating with their NICU care team, advocating for their baby, interacting with their baby to form a lasting bond, managing the emotional and physical stress of the NICU, preparing for discharge from the NICU, and practicing a successful parenting style beyond the NICU.
A recent consumer of NICU Nook’s essential course describes their experience: "This course is comprehensive, compassionate, and well-paced, without getting bogged down in excessive details! The videos are generally short, so you can start and stop as needed. It's a really valuable resource for NICU parents.”
About Stephanie and Amanda, Co-Founders of NICU Nook:
Stephanie Simon, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in NYC. She specializes in perinatal mental health and couples therapy. She helped establish a group therapy protocol for NICU parents at Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and has specialized experience in treating perinatal mood and anxiety disorders from her former position at The Motherhood Center of New York. Amanda Neilan, CPNP, was a NICU Nurse for 9 years at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. She is currently a pediatric nurse practitioner in urology at Weill Cornell in Manhattan. Stephanie and Amanda’s hands-on experience helping parents through the medical and emotional challenges of having a baby in the NICU led them to create NICU Nook.
For more information, please visit www.nicunook.com or follow us on Instagram ( ( @ ) nicunook).
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