Based on From Hurt to Healing, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, 1999. Original materials made possible through a donation by Jaye and Bill Zessar in loving memory of their grandson Zachary Bannon, and in celebration of his sister Haley Lynn and his brother Matthew Vernon, children of Marcia and Joe Bannon.
The March of Dimes gratefully acknowledges the help of the following reviewers and contributors:
Joan Arnold, PhD, RN
Professor, The College of New Rochelle School of Nursing, New Rochelle, New York; Consultant, New York City Satellite Office/MHRA, New York State Center for Sudden Infant Death
Rachel Balck, MA, EdD
Former March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist, Greenville Hospital System Children’s Hospital, Greenville, South Carolina
Liza G. Cooper, LMSW
Director, NICU Family Support, March of Dimes, White Plains, New York
Kathy D’Aloise
Creative Director, March of Dimes, White Plains, New York
Dona Dei, RN, MSN
State Director of Program Services, March of Dimes Maryland National Capital Area Chapter, Arlington, Virginia
Penelope Buschman Gemma, MS, APRN-BC, FAAN
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, Director of the Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner Program, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, New York; Bereavement Consultant, St.Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York
Kathy Graham
Program Director, First Candle/SIDS Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland
Lori Gabriel Gunther, MS
March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist, Albany Medical Center, Albany, New York
Amy Hamilton
Latham, New York
Wendy Mettger, MA
President, Mettger Communications, Takoma Park, Maryland
Melissa Middleton, MS
March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist, Mercy Hospital Oklahoma State, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Julie Walker, LMSW
Former March of Dimes NICU Family Support Specialist, The Regional Medical Center of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
Jaye Zessar
Coordinator, Family Literacy Programs (retired), Black Hawk College, Moline, Illinois
Illustrations by Marsha Maurer
August 2008
