If you are in crisis, call or text 988 for the the Crisis and Suicide Lifeline.

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Preemie Care: A Guide to Navigating the First Year with Your Premature Baby

Written for parents, but full of practical advice for health care professionals alike, Preemie Care helps ease the unique preemie journey to health, with a comprehensive guide to the first year of life.

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NICU Journal - "Our NICU Journey"

This high-quality journal gives you the power to track everything going on in your baby's daily life, with prompts to be sure you're documenting everything you'll cherish, all in a sweet, comforting style that newborn families love. It's so easy to use!

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Widen the Window

BOOK - Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

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Try Softer

Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode--and into a Life of Connection and Joy

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Tiny Humans, Big Lessons

In this remarkable book of personal and professional transformation, Sue Ludwig, a neonatal therapist, shares how her tiny patients in the NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) guided her to step off her hamster wheel of existence and into a new way of living.

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The Queer Family Podcast: NICU Loss Story

Podcast focused on living as an LGBT family.

Episode: Heartache & Hope

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The Queer Family Podcast: High-Risk Pregnancy and NICU Story

Podcast focused on living as an LGBT family.

Episode: Half a Million Dollar Baby

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Mom & Mind: Podcast with Dr. Kat - LGBTQ Mental Health

Podcast focused on Maternal Mental Health.
Episode: LGBTQ Mental Health

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Mom & Mind: Podcast with Dr. Kat - Multiple pregnancy Losses

Podcast focused on Maternal Mental Health.

Episode: Multiple Pregnancy Losses – Impacts on Mental Health and Subsequent Pregnancies

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Masculine Birth Ritual Podcast: Pre-Term Birth and Parenting in the NICU

Podcast focused on the things masculine-of-center queer and trans people do to make, birth, and nurture human life.

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Queer + Pregnant - A Pregnancy Journal

The first and only pregnancy journal created for queer individuals and families, by a queer doula.

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Postpartum Support International Queer & Trans Parent Support Group

PSI’s Queer & Trans Parent Support Group is FREE and open to all members of the queer community who are expecting, adopting, and/or parenting babies up to 2 years. This group is intended for gestational, non-gestational and adoptive parents.

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Neonatology Today: Insights to Support LGBTQ-Headed Families in NICU

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Breastfeed LA: Lactation Rights for LGBTQAI+ Families

Article regarding lactation rights for queer families

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Pediatrics Nationwide: LGBTQIA+ Infant Feeding Challenges

Article identifies challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ parents, factors that can help healthcare providers improve their support.

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Lily's Hope Foundation

Care packages for families with premature babies.

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Love for Lily

Through facilitated support groups, Essentials Bags and grants, Love for Lily’s mission is to support families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to thrive during their stay and at home.

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Madelyn’s Fund

NORTH CAROLINA ONLY

By assisting with unexpected expenses, Madelyn’s Fund hopes to not only reduce the impact of the emotional and financial stressors of having a medically fragile baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, but also strive to support parents’ confidence in feeling that they know their child best. This support increases the likelihood of success in meeting their child’s developmental and medical needs after discharge home.

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Me Two Books

After being disappointed in the lack of children's books about the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for her preemie twins, Ali Dunn decided to write and illustrate her own. Me Two Books' titles feature preemies/ NICU babies, twins, kids with disabilities, and those not represented by the traditional publishing industry.

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Mighty Miracles

Mighty Miracles Foundation is to empower and support families of preemies and others with special health needs beginning life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). We do this by sending out free care packages to families currently going through the NICU and by partnering with NICU to provide items from our care packages for their families.

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PreemieWorld

Our mission is to build a bridge between the parenting and professional worlds that surround premature infants.

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Graham's Foundation

Our vision is a world where no parent goes through the experience of prematurity alone. Our mission is to inform and guide parents of preemies so that they may confidently navigate the journey of prematurity.

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Miracle Mamas LLC

Miracle Mamas LLC is a diversity & inclusion firm founded by micropreemie mom, maternal health advocate and birth trauma survivor Ebony Ford.

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Miracle Moon

Frankie is a clinical psychologist and Georgie is a graphic designer, they thought with their shared knowledge, skills, experience and passion, that they could provide much needed support to NICU parents, past, present and future.

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Parijat Desphande

Parijat Deshpande is a best selling author, speaker, consultant, producer, and somatic trauma professional whose mission is to improve high-risk pregnancy outcomes and end prematurity.

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National Child Traumatic Stress Network (Medical Trauma Resources)

Our mission is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.