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#375 - 🟠 CHNC 2025 COVERAGE - The Nuances of Universal Screening Programs

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 • Duration 24:07

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This episode features Dr. Sarah Swenson (Children’s Nebraska), Dr. Cara Solness, PhD (Children’s Nebraska), and Dr. Desiree Leverette (Emory/Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta) discussing equitable approaches to parental mental health screening in the NICU. They highlight that traditional programs often screen only mothers for depression, missing significant distress among non-gestational parents, especially fathers. Universal screening identified five times more affected partners, improving opportunities for support. The guests underscore the developmental importance of including all caregivers, the need to address stigma and fears of CPS involvement, and the value of trauma-informed communication. They advocate for integrated NICU psychologists and tailored, equity-focused interventions, including telehealth and culturally responsive materials.

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#375 - 🟠 CHNC 2025 COVERAGE - How do we engage more nurses to present research and attend conferences?

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 • Duration 09:51

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This episode features Joshua Hess, MSN, RN discussing strategies to encourage more nurses to attend neonatal conferences where interdisciplinary collaboration drives meaningful quality improvement. Hess highlights how nurse involvement ensures clinical decisions reflect bedside realities, especially in managing conditions like BPD. He describes his unit’s culture of first-name, physician-nurse partnership and how institutional support and presenting a poster helped him attend. He also shares his team’s safe sleep quality initiative, which standardized education, created an order for “safe sleep readiness,” and significantly reduced unsafe sleep environments. Hess encourages NICUs to empower nurses as conference participants, educators, and change leaders.

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As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.

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#375 - 🟠 CHNC 2025 COVERAGE - Family Centered Care Task Force - Nothing about us without us

Tuesday, November 11, 2025 • Duration 22:21

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This discussion features Dr. Malathi Balasundaram and Morgan Kowalski, leaders of the CHNC Family-Centered Care Task Force, outlining how Family Partnership Councils integrate families as true partners in NICU care, policy development, and quality improvement. Instead of providing feedback after decisions are made, families co-create guidelines and initiatives from the start, promoting empowerment and more meaningful parent presence. They describe barriers such as recruitment, compensation, scheduling, and staff uncertainty, and offer practical strategies including foundation support, transparent role expectations, and diversifying family representation. The Task Force’s webinars, office hours, and survey-driven improvement tools help units build sustainable, equitable, family-centered practices across both NICU and follow-up care settings.

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As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.

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#329 - Neopedia: The Wikipedia of Neonatology for Families

Season 4 · Episode 62

Sunday, July 13, 2025 • Duration 51:08

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In this episode of The Incubator Podcast, Ben and Daphna are joined by Fabiana Bacchini, Dr. Tiffany Gladdis, and Bianka Gallina to discuss the development and launch of Neopedia, a free, multilingual online platform designed to support families navigating the NICU and beyond.

The team explains how Neopedia was created by an international group of parent advocates and medical experts to bridge the information gap many families face during and after neonatal hospitalization. They walk through the site’s structure—including tabs on pregnancy, NICU life, going home, and long-term outcomes—and explain how content was written to be accurate, accessible, and supportive without being overwhelming.

The conversation also explores how Neopedia addresses mental health, the importance of family-centered education, and how the platform is intended for both parents and clinicians. The episode highlights why this resource fills a critical need: empowering parents to ask better questions, understand what’s happening, and advocate for their children across different stages and settings.

Visit neopedia.org to explore the site. Available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

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#328 - What a Doula Really Does: Latoya Southwell on Trust, Advocacy, and Healing

Season 4 · Episode 61

Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • Duration 42:31

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In this episode of The Incubator Podcast, Ben and Daphna sit down with certified birth doula and lactation counselor Latoya Southwell for a wide-ranging conversation about the role doulas play in supporting families before, during, and after birth. LaToya shares her personal and professional path into birth work, and how her experiences shaped a culturally sensitive, trauma-informed approach to supporting laboring people—particularly those from historically marginalized communities.

The conversation covers what doulas do (and don’t do), how they differ from midwives, and how they advocate for safe, informed, and emotionally grounded birth experiences. LaToya talks candidly about how she prepares clients for unexpected outcomes, including C-sections and NICU admissions, and how doulas can collaborate with healthcare teams rather than be in conflict with them.

She also introduces the Baby Café initiative—an informal peer support network she co-founded to reduce isolation and provide postpartum support for new mothers—and explains why preparing families for postpartum is just as critical as planning for labor.

This episode is a practical introduction to the real work of birth doulas—and an invitation to rethink how care teams can work together to improve outcomes and experiences for parents and babies alike.

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As always, feel free to send us questions, comments, or suggestions to our email: nicupodcast@gmail.com. You can also contact the show through Instagram or Twitter, @nicupodcast. Or contact Ben and Daphna directly via their Twitter profiles: @drnicu and @doctordaphnamd. The papers discussed in today's episode are listed and timestamped on the webpage linked below.

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#325 - 📑 Journal Club - The Complete Episode from June 29th 2025

Season 4 · Episode 58

Sunday, June 29, 2025 • Duration 01:26:48

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In this week’s Journal Club, Ben and Daphna unpack a series of recent studies exploring outcomes in neonatology—from long-term mortality after severe neonatal morbidity to short-term feeding strategies in preterm infants.

They open with a large population-based Swedish study showing that infants who experience severe neonatal morbidities face elevated mortality risks well into adolescence—especially those with neurological complications. The discussion highlights how early-life diagnoses carry weight far beyond the NICU, and how long-term support systems may not be fully equipped to manage that risk.

Next, the hosts examine a small German crossover trial on prone positioning, revealing that even simple changes in posture may cut hypoxemic episodes in half. They follow this with a randomized trial comparing dopamine and norepinephrine for neonatal septic shock, a data-heavy look at the nuanced physiology behind first-line interventions.

The episode rounds out with studies on cold milk for feeding dysphagia, late-onset sepsis risk with hydrocortisone, the impact of tele-neonatology on cooling time in HIE, and a new meta-analysis on kangaroo care’s role in reducing infection.

It’s a pragmatic, fast-paced overview of recent literature shaping how we care for vulnerable newborns.

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#325 - [Journal Club Shorts] - 📌 Norepinephrine vs. Dopamine in Neonatal Septic Shock

Sunday, June 29, 2025 • Duration 12:19

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Norepinephrine versus Dopamine for Septic Shock in Neonates: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Mazhari MYA, Priyadarshi M, Singh P, Chaurasia S, Basu S.J Pediatr. 2025 Jul;282:114599. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2025.114599. Epub 2025 Apr 17.PMID: 40252959 Clinical Trial.

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