Navigating your baby’s NICU journey isn’t easy! You are probably feeling all the feelings. Know that you are not alone and that other parents who experience this journey feel the ways that you do.
No matter how long or short your baby is hospitalized positive affirmations can help empower your parenting in the NICU! Positive affirmations are an opportunity to identify and reframe difficult thoughts and feelings in order to empower how you think, feel, and take action for your family at every step along your path as you move through it.
Last week I shared a set of Preterm and High Risk Birth Affirmations, and THIS week I’m excited to offer an original set of 27 affirmations curated to empower your parenting in the NICU—including a version for parents with twins or more. This set of NICU affirmations is meant to meet YOU wherever you are, right now. Every affirmation may not speak to you. You may have your own phrases or sayings that you want and need to hear right now. Feel free to take what you like and leave the rest.
This affirmation banner printable is intended as an easy DIY with high impact! You may also want to borrow the affirmations included in this set to mix and match with custom affirmations you write yourself—you can find step-by-step guidance to do that here.
Each NICU Parenting Affirmation is enclosed in a circle, easy for printing on 8.5x11 paper, with directions and suggestions for display.
This NICU Parenting affirmation set includes 27 phrases like these: I know my baby best. My baby needs me right now. I am the most important person in my baby’s world. My intuition to advocate, protect and parent my baby grows in the NICU. I am a good advocate. My voice is loud, my love is big. I know my baby and my baby knows me. I am a good parent. My baby knows I love them. I am learning as I go. I am supported in my journey. I am strong to ask for help. I walk this journey with my baby one step at a time. Our journey has ups and downs and I am here for my baby. I am a learner and a teacher here in the NICU. We celebrate every small victory.