Rokki Garcia and Courtney Lichtenstein are both certified neonatal therapists at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, specializing in speech-language pathology. They were drawn to the field for the ability to foster deep connections with parents and colleagues from different specialties, as well as for the emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of infants in the NICU. While Rokki and […]
At the time they found out they would be having a baby, Chris and his wife, Steph, had been happily married for a few years. Chris had been working retail jobs all of his life and was training to become a health care assistant where he lived in Dublin, Ireland. As he was beginning to dip his toes into the […]
For most of her life, Jessica never envisioned having children, certain that motherhood was not her path. However, around eight years ago, she and her husband began to rethink their future, eventually coming to the consensus that they wanted to be parents. With the birth of her daughter Sierra on July 20, 2014, and their HIE event, Jessica is grateful […]
Megan and her husband, Carl, are parents to a five-year-old daughter, Mya. Megan works as a union leader at a nearby college, while Carl works as a massage therapist and personal trainer. Megan’s pregnancy with Mya was relatively uneventful, so she never expected that the labor and delivery process wouldn’t also be smooth sailing. Even thirty-six and a half weeks […]
Dr. Janet Soul is a pediatric neurologist on Hope for HIE’s Medical Advisory Board, specializing in fetal and neonatal neurology with a focus on the etiology, pathogenesis, outcome, and prevention of early acquired brain injury. As a medical student where she grew up in Montreal, Canada, Janet was sure she wanted to become an adult neurologist. However, after realizing how […]
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