The Hospital

Microaggressions: “We need more [BIPOC...

Expressing emotion in front of the medic...

There was a lot of veiled language aroun...

NICU: All of this information is trickli...

A dad reflects on living in the hospital...

In the hospital: I felt like nothing rea...

Her medical team knows what we’ve been...

My Present-Self message to my Past-Self:...

Getting out and walking was a saving gra...

My grief was exacerbated by the trauma o...

“I internalized that to be competent m...

I convinced myself my job was to be comp...

From diagnosis to death: “It was 8 mon...

Cardiomyopathy: A mom on arriving on the...

A New Diagnosis: Finding Your Bearings

The hospital is like a foreign land

It’s hard to know which doctor is in c...

Parents get exhausted by the steady stre...

It’s exhausting to sort out all the di...

Getting Clarity—Parents can say, “Th...

Hospital teams don’t want families to ...

If a parent feels angry or upset, ask fo...

All the people who helped me when we wer...

There will be communication challenges. ...

Providers can behave differently on diff...

The Flow of the Day: Caregivers Change S...

Self-Care: Providers will encourage pare...

Self Care: Finding help in the hospital

Parents feel pressure to be “liked” ...

For Providers—Self care is important f...

For Providers—Ask families about their...

For Providers—Families can be quite di...

For Providers—Acknowledging feelings o...

Should the Providers go to the Funeral?

For Providers—Child death impacts us a...