A happy update from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU): Thanks to support from the Bridgeport Hospital Foundation, the NICU was able to buy a camera and printer to take pictures of caregivers so that our babies can see unmasked faces. We don’t know yet if the prevalence of masked faces will have any effect on infant development. We hope that it helps to give our babies a chance to see their loved ones faces nearby. Here is one of our little patients on the day of discharge, being held by her mother, with her mother’s smiling face posted in her crib!
Eliza Myers, MD, IBCLC, is the medical director of the newborn ICU at Bridgeport. She is also a board-certified lactation consultant and has a special interest in Breastfeeding Medicine. She lives in New Haven with her family, her dog and her chickens.