Therapy for New Moms with Preemies and Micro-Preemies
No matter how much you planned, all you really wanted was to leave the hospital with a healthy baby and finally take them home.
Being stuck in the NICU changes everything.
Instead of settling into life with your newborn, you’re learning medical language you never wanted to know. You’re living by monitor alarms, feeding schedules, and hospital visiting hours. Your body is healing, your heart is breaking, and your baby is somewhere you can’t fully protect them.
You may find yourself asking what you did wrong to end up here. Going back over everything. Trying to find the thing you could have changed.
You didn't do anything wrong.
You're trying to do everything possible to help your baby succeed.
The appointments never seem to stop. PT, OT, speech, feeding therapy. Every week brings another specialist, another evaluation, another thing to worry about.
The lack of sleep is catching up with you.
The stress is living in your body.
The constant vigilance is exhausting.
You may feel irritable, anxious, and emotionally raw in ways you don’t recognize. Your nervous system hasn’t had a chance to settle since the day your baby was born.
All of your friends seem like they’re settling into life with their new babies. They want to give you advice that doesn’t apply to your situation and, honestly, it’s kind of annoying. Their babies came home. Yours had a hospital room number.
Sometimes it feels like your partner doesn't fully understand how hard this is. They've gone back to work. They're not living inside the daily medical conversations the way you are. You're carrying the mental load of your baby's care, appointments, progress, and fears - largely alone.
You love your baby fiercely.
You are doing everything you can.
And you are exhausted.
Life as a NICU mom looks different.
Being a preemie or micro-preemie parent comes with a kind of grief most people don’t see. Grief for the birth you imagined. Grief for the early days you didn’t get. Grief for the ease you hoped for and didn’t receive.
You’re adjusting to a new normal you never asked for.
I can help you find steadiness when nothing feels steady.
The trauma. The fear. The isolation. The pressure to stay strong when you're falling apart inside.
I provide therapy for NICU moms and parents of medically complex children navigating the emotional weight of this experience.
I can help you:
process the emotional impact of your NICU experience, including the parts you haven't said out loud
cope with the ongoing stress of medical appointments and not knowing what comes next
release the guilt and self-blame you've been carrying
find your footing as you adjust to life after the NICU, or while you're still in it
You don't have to carry this alone.
Your baby needs care. So do you.
