Kristie McNealy, MD

While we were in the NICU with our daughter, who was born at 31 weeks in December of 2005, I was anxious to find some sort of support from other NICU parents.  Unfortunately, the culture in our NICU was dominated by a concern for HIPAA and patient privacy.  Parents were banned from the NICU during [...]

Two years ago today, I walked out of the hospital with nothing but a prescription for painkillers and the things that I had accumulated during my week of bedrest. It was Christmas Eve, and my baby was in the NICU, on a ventilator and under bili lights. I hadn’t even held her yet. [...]