Facing the emotional and logistical challenges of hospitalization for their baby, families often experience overwhelming stress.
Balancing the need to be with their child and the necessity to return to work can be heartbreaking.
When parents can't stay with their hospitalized baby, it can lead to increased postpartum depression, reduced breast milk availability, and weakened parent-infant bonding.
These factors significantly affect the family's overall health and well-being.
How would you handle making such impossible decisions?
Allyson Ward, an advanced practice nurse and a neonatal nurse practitioner-board certified at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL, testified before the Senate HELP Committee.
