Lise C. Johnson, MD, Jessica Dym Bartlett, MSW, LICSW, PhD, J. Kevin Nugent, PhD

Parenting a child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is challenging, and transitioning from NICU to home can be daunting. The Newborn Behavioral Observations System (NBO) (1) was designed to sensitize parents and other primary caregivers to their baby’s competencies, vulnerabilities, and individuality, to foster sensitive and responsive parent-infant interactions, and to contribute to the development of a positive parent-infant relationship from the very beginning. As such, the NBO may be a useful tool for various NICU professionals.

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Disclosures: Drs Johnson and Nugent are authors of the Under-standing Newborn Behavior and Early Relationships: The Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO) System Handbook. They receive royalties on public sales of the book. They do not receive royalties on sales of the book that are associated with NBO Training tuition.