Robert White, MD, Joy Brown, PhD, Vincent Smith, MD, Hun-Seng Chao, MD, Mitchell Goldstein, MD, MBA, CML

Selected abstracts from the the 38th Annual Gravens Conference are presented below:

Poster Abstracts Table of Contents:

Gravens 2025-1 Development of a Belgian perinatal palliative care intervention: Supporting infants with severe perinatal diagnoses, their families and healthcare providers

Gravens 2025-2 Empowering Parents: Using Targeted Journals to Improve Parental Stress and Engagement

Gravens 2025-3 Case managers at the NICU: Family Integrated Care, follow Up for mother and child

Gravens 2025-4 Using Transcutaneous Bilirubinometry to Reduce Iatrogenic Blood Loss in the NICU

Gravens 2025-5 Hospitable NICUs – Promoting healing and flourishing for infants, families, and staff through hospitable welcome and care

Gravens 2025-6 H-HOPE (Hospital to Home: Optimizing the Preterm Infant Environment): Infant, Parent, and Parent-Infant Interaction Outcomes

Gravens 2025-7 Start the Clock: Reducing First-Dose Antibiotic Administration Times in the NICU

Gravens 2025-8 Family-Driven Feeding: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Gravens 2025-9 Line insertion through a long umbilical stump, a concept generating laboratory study

Gravens 2025-10 Assessing perceived safety and convenience of use of the Skincubator 2.0 (a device for prolonged skin-to-skin-care for extreme preterm infants) in a structured manikin simulation in a tertiary NICU in Australia.

Gravens 2025-11 Maternal Engagement in a NICU in Uganda: Perspectives of Healthcare Workers

Gravens 2025-12 The impact of medical factors and feeding therapy on achievement of full oral feeding in preterm infants in the NICU

Gravens 2025-13 Trauma-Informed and Resilience- Promoting Care Trainings for NICU Providers

Gravens 2025-14 The Road to Excellence is Paved with Wrong Turns: Improving the Way we Honor our Bedside Mistakes

Gravens 2025-15 (Not published by author request)

Gravens 2025-16 Post COVID – an approach to bringing families back to face-to-face participation.

Gravens 2024-17 Improving Fluconazole Prophylaxis Guideline Adherence in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Gravens 2025-18 Infant Voice Exposure Through a Reading Program: Comparing Experiences in an Open Bay to a Single-Family Room NICU

Gravens 2025-19 Reflective Practice as a Catalyst for Trauma-Informed Professional Development: Insights from the TIP 1.0 Program

Gravens 2025-20 It’s Time for Kangaroo Care: A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Time Spent Skin-To-Skin in the Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Gravens 2025-21 Implementing a NICU Nourishment Center through Community Collaboration

Gravens 2025-22 Prenatal workshop and support group for parents of children who will come to the NICU

Gravens 2025-23 Project Milestones: Creating a Positive Environment for Bonding Families and Newborns One Photo at a Time

Gravens 2025-24 Phototherapy in the Skincubator, a feasibility laboratory test

Gravens 2025-25 Financial Hardship in Neonatal Care: Development of a Conceptual Framework

Gravens 2025-27 Transforming Preterm Oral Feeding with Innovative Algorithms: Insights from a Qualitative Improvement Initiative

Gravens 2025-28 Sustaining a Nurturing Culture

Gravens 2025-29 The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Infant and Maternal Health Using a Reproductive Justice Lens

Gravens 2025-30 Using a Trauma Informed Approach to Share Lessons Learned During My Transition from NICU Professional to NICU Parent

Gravens 2025-31 Small wins for small babies: a program celebrating babies’ successes helps parents cope with the hospitalization in neonatology

Gravens 2025-32 Therapy BRIDGE (Bringing Real-Time Instruction via Developmental and Gestationally-appropriate Education/ Coaching) Program: A pilot study

Gravens 2025-33 Hold Me Close: Broadening Skin-to- Skin Criteria in a Canadian Quaternary Care NICU

Gravens 2025-34 Characteristics of Communication in Interpreted and Non-Interpreted NICU Family Meetings

Gravens 2025-35 Family Well-being Outcomes for Infants with Severe Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: Comfort and Quality of Life Surrounding Transition to Home

Gravens 2024-36 NICU Family Support

Gravens 2025-37 The physics of bottle systems: All bottle systems are not created equal

Gravens 2025-38 Implementation of the Hunger Vital Sign Tool to Assess Food Insecurity

Gravens 2025-39 Implementing A Music Therapy Program to Support Nurturing Encounters in the NICU

Gravens 2025-40 NICU Passport

Gravens 2025-41 Implementation of Infant & Family Centered Developmental Care Standards in a BPD Program

Gravens 2025-42 Examining the Single-family Room: Disruptive and Supportive Design for Family-centered Clustered Care in the NICU

Gravens 2025-43 Once Upon a Design: Sharing Stories from HSHS St. John NICU’s Post Occupancy Evaluation to Promote Safe Spaces

Gravens 2025-45 Comparing Caregiver Report to In- Person Developmental Assessments of Preterm Infants at 24 and 36 months of Age

Gravens 2025-46 Introducing Psychological Support for Neonatal Fellows to Improve Trainee Mental Health

Gravens 2025-47 Implementation of Discharge Path Tool to Achieve Discharge Readiness in NICU families

Gravens 2025-48 Implementation of Emotional Readiness Tool to Achieve Discharge Readiness in NICU families

Gravens 2025-49 Empowering Families for Better Outcomes: A Statewide QI Initiative to Improve NICU Discharge Readiness

Gravens 2025-50 Factors Contributing to Stress in NICU Infants and Their Mothers

Gravens 2025-51 Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Individualized Neurodevelopmental Program for Infants with Prolonged NICU Hospitalization – The SPROUT Program

Gravens 2025-52 Weekly Multidisciplinary Rounds to Guide an Intensive Inpatient Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Program

Gravens 2025-53 To explore the experience of parents of micro premature babies participating in the infant massage programs in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU)

Gravens 2025-54 Words Matter: Creating Inclusive Spaces in the NICU

• NOTE: Abstract identifiers were updated from 2024 to 2025 to match abstract identifiers in the article