SUPPORT DURING AND AFTER THE

NEONATAL INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

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Helping Parents

Connect with Each Other and Their Baby

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​​​​Supporting Resolution of Concerns About

Attachment

​Sleep

Crying

Ability to Settle and Soothe

Feeding​​​

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Promoting ​​Integration of Birth Story

Kilometer Thirteen holds a safe space for families to

process difficult or unpredictable circumstances from

any point in the pre-conception, conception,

pregnancy, and birth journey.

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Offering Standby NICU Support

Kilometer Thirteen responds when your neonate or infant

experiences prolonged periods of crying, lack of connection,

fast or slow heart rate, excessive respiratory rate, and other 

forms of dysregulation. You can prearrange for K13 to provide

standby services. This also extends to accompanying your baby

during procedures. K13 can help your child to feel human

connection and safety in the midst of chaotic or

disturbing---but necessary---medical care.

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Offering NICU Care for Baby

When Family Cannot be Present

Family may not always be able to be present with

the neonate or infant in the NICU. When increased human

connection is desired for your baby, Kilometer Thirteen

can provide supplemental care in the NICU.

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Offering Palliative Care

The circumstances of the NICU can place families in the position of

having to make impossible decisions. It is inherent in the nature

of these choices that they are fraught with double binds. Through

the practice of Castellino Prenatal and Birth Therapy, K13 can sit

with you in the tension field of your personal history and what it means

for you to make these extraordinarily painful decisions. K13 can hold

a safe container within which you can reach—imperfect though

it may be—the best decision for you and your family.

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If your baby requires palliative care, K13 can supplement family

care to reduce any period of time when your baby would,

otherwise, be alone on their journey.

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CARE OBJECTIVES

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​​​​Parent-Parent Resonance and Coregulation

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Parent Integration of Their Birth Story

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Role Clarification and Differentiation

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Honoring the Sentience of the Baby

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Honoring the Experience, Emotions and

Expressions of the Baby

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Parent Recognition of Birth Story

Expressed Through Baby's Gestures

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Parent Affirmation and Support of

Baby's Experience of Birth Story

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​​​Parent-Baby Resonance, Sharing,

Listening, and Somatic Reflection.

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Baby Coregulation and Sleep

(Notably when Critical for Health)

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Baby Comfort

(Notably when Infant Discomfort

Due to Birth Trauma, Health Status,

or Medical Care is a Factor)

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​​​​​info@kilometerthirteen.com

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