(Part 2) Top products from r/NICUParents

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We found 8 product mentions on r/NICUParents. We ranked the 27 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

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u/andgiveayeLL · 3 pointsr/NICUParents

31/33 days in the NICU and both my twins are in early intervention, which sounds scary but it's great! A physical therapist comes to our house once a week and works with them on tummy time, neck control, etc.

Preemies are definitely going to be "behind" on their milestones, but they typically catch up. If your doctors don't understand that preemies are behind and that's ok, then get new doctors. If your doctors understand that preemies are behind and are offering services like physical therapy/early intervention to help them catch up, take them up on it!

By 4 months adjusted, I agree with your doctors that your next goals are to be pushing up on arms and getting rid of those head bobbles. But your doctors shouldn't be shaming you and should instead be giving you these goals and ways to help meet them (early intervention, physical therapy, suggestions on ways to make tummy time more pleasant).

Speaking of tummy time, I definitely think tummy time on your chest counts. My babies both hate floor tummy time. Here are some suggestions for you that I've found to help with my babies who hate floor tummy time:

  • Keep doing tummy time on your chest. It's helping her get stronger even if it's not as "intense" of a work out for her as floor time.
  • Does she like mirrors? We use this with my son who loves a mirror and it buys us an extra minute or so with floor time (remember, your goal isn't to go from 0 enjoyment of floor time to loving 15 minutes of floor time in one step. It's to go from 0 seconds of enjoyment to 5 seconds. Then from 5 seconds to 10. etc)
  • How about music? We play music right next to them and that distracts them through some floor time
  • Do you have a couch or chair? Try doing tummy time on the couch so that her head, if she were to pick it up and look forward, is looking out into the room. Place yourself in front of her (so you're seated on the floor). She may like to be able to see far and wide from her high vantage point on the couch, and you're right there to reassure her and provide a face to watch too
  • How about a boppy? Or a prop pillow? We have had great luck with this one
  • How about a rolled up towel or receiving blanket?
  • How about in the air (getting her used to being in a position that isn't on her back)?
  • Remember that babies are pretty good at feeling what you're feeling. If you're going into tummy time tense and stressed, she will notice and stress herself.
  • Try not just placing her on her face, but starting her on her back, then gently rolling her to her side. Let her hang out on her side for a bit. Then gently roll her from her side to her front.
  • Try to learn when her crying means "I'm frustrated because I'm working really hard to lift my head and it's heavy!" and when it means "OK I'm done now. Nothing more productive is going to happen this session." Let her fuss through the frustration and keep trying. Pick her up and soothe her when it's the second kind of crying.
u/mabebaw · 1 pointr/NICUParents

We just got discharged last week after 158 days in the NICU. Not sure how old the sibling is but this booked really helped introduce our 5 year old to the NiCU. I highly recommend it.

No Bigger than My Teddy Bear

https://www.amazon.com/dp/097284600X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_d-vTCbJEYJRXS

Spending some quality time with the sibling at home. Something as simple as having someone to step in our place and take her to a park/playground was a huge relief.

We had a long NiCU stay and we were quite surprised by how quickly family and friends continued with their normal life. I think just checking in on them, letting them know you are thinking about them is soooo valuable. We sometimes felt like we got sent away to NICU prison and the world forgot about us!

And as everyone has mentioned gift card to the hospital cafeteria or coffee shop nearby are very helpful.

I hope the surgery goes well.

u/HipposRDangerous · 1 pointr/NICUParents

Take time for yourself and for your husband. As tempting as it is to stay in the NICU 24/7, dont. Be there for hands on time, but make sure you are taking care of you. See if you NICU has this book available. Its an amazing book that helps you get through the NICU experience. I have to warn you though, its has a ton of information so only read the sections that would apply to you.

Take a ton of pictures! You will not believe how quickly those babies will grow. My twins were born at 28 weeks at first I didn't want any pictures because I didn't want to remember the NICU, but I am so glad that I took so many. As heartbreaking, stressful, and exhausting the NICU was, in a way I am so glad.

Also keep a journal of any questions you might have and also write down the answers! I cant tell you how many times I had a question, but I got so distracted that I forgot to ask the doctors or nurses.

Also you have the right to request a nurse to be your primary nurse. This means that any time that nurse is working she will have your kids. If she isn't someone's primary she will most likely agree to it. Alternatively if you have a nurse that you don't like, you can request not to have her again. I had a nurse that I didn't really mesh well with. Her care was okay, but I hated how she treated me and talked to me, so I requested not to have her again. She was pleasant she just talked to me like I was an idiot and refused to let me change my kids' diapers on my own...I'd only been doing that for at least a month by this point.

Anyway I hope your NICU stay is short and sweet. If you ever want to chat or talk feel free to give me a pm. I had my twin boys at 28 weeks and we were in the NICU for 79 days. We almost lost one, but thankfully they are both healthy and home now. :)

u/iukekini · 3 pointsr/NICUParents

Had a 26 weeker that came home with oxygen for about 9 months after discharge. Most of the time he was only on at night or if he got a cold.

Check with your insurance company to see exactly how many sensors they will cover. We found out that our medical supply company was restricting us to 4 a month but our insurance didn't have a limit. If you do have a limit they do sell the sensor wrap separate from the sensor. As they do tend to lose their stick after a couple of days. You can also sometimes find the sensors for cheap on eBay. We also asked every nurse we saw for extra sensors whenever we were at a doctors visit, the ER or a hospital stay.

As for wraps after the sensor, we tried everything but the Posey foam wraps worked the best. They last a long time, soft on the skin, are easy to take on and off, and cheap.

So Tender Grips are terrible and our little one liked to rip them off. But if they do stay on and you need to get them off we used these wipes.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001MU6VM8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1

Check with your insurance company about tender grips too. The medical supply companies love to nickel and dime you about this stuff.

Lastly, if you have to do a sleep study to get off the oxygen. Use your pulse ox as well as theirs. The one they gave us for the sleep study wasn't calibrated correctly and was off by 5 points. Which for our little man was the difference between staying on o2 and getting off it.



u/taraclaire · 13 pointsr/NICUParents

O'Keefes Working Hands. My hands were in agony from all of the hand washing. It was the only thing that helped. The stuff in the round container, not the cream.




Also gift to show appreciation for their NICU nurses. Candy, Kind Bars, snacks...That went a long way for us.

u/chengjih · 3 pointsr/NICUParents

This book is a bit old now, but was helpful to us. There might be other ones now.

It helped to read about other stories. While there, I read Half-Baked and the newsmagazine articles that eventually became this book (it was also a RadioLab episode). Sometime later, there was this book which is an oral history of preemies who have reached adulthood.