Mom & Me MD: Concierge Newborn & Postpartum Care

Mom & Me MD: Concierge Newborn & Postpartum Care Board-certified Pediatrician. In-home/virtual newborn & postpartum care. Life coach for Nicu moms.

It’s official — registration is OPEN for Bridging the Birthing Gap™ Summit!✨When I first shared the vision for this summ...
04/24/2026

It’s official — registration is OPEN for Bridging the Birthing Gap™ Summit!✨

When I first shared the vision for this summit, so many of you commented, shared, tagged colleagues, and affirmed what I already felt deeply:

This conversation is needed. OVERDUE.

Across maternal and infant care, there are so many people working to support mothers, babies, and families:

OB/GYNs. Midwives. Pediatricians. Neonatologists. Nurses. Doulas. Lactation professionals. Perinatal mental health professionals. Advocates. Community leaders.

But even when everyone cares, gaps can still exist.

Gaps in communication.
Gaps in trust.
Gaps in role clarity.
Gaps in referrals.
Gaps in postpartum support.
Gaps between birth and the NICU.
Gaps between the hospital and home.

And when collaboration breaks down, families feel it. Live it. Carry it.

That is why I created Bridging the Birthing Gap™ — a virtual summit designed to strengthen trust, clarity, communication, and collaboration across the maternal-infant care continuum.

Over two days, we will talk about:

✨ who’s who in perinatal care
✨ where tension comes from
✨ shared language and shared goals
✨ supporting families after birth
✨ why the NICU is postpartum too
✨ referral gaps and continuity of care
✨ what collaboration looks like when it works
✨ how we move from silos to synergy

This is not about proving which role matters most.❗️

It is about recognizing that families need us to understand how our roles connect.

🗓️ May 15–16, 2026
💻 Virtual
🎟️ Free live attendance
⭐ VIP Replay Pass available with 30-day replay access + summit resources

Registration Link in Bio!

If this conversation resonates with you, please register, share this post, and tag someone who needs to be in the room.

Different roles.
Shared goal.
Real work.
Together.

The speakers for Bridging the Birthing Gap™ Summit have officially been selected!!And I’m so honored to share this with ...
04/22/2026

The speakers for Bridging the Birthing Gap™ Summit have officially been selected!!

And I’m so honored to share this with you…

Our closing keynote will be delivered by Dr. Nicole Rankins.
And I’ll have the privilege of opening the summit.

As headshots and bios continue to come in, I’m also grateful to share that sponsors are already stepping in to support this important work.

Special thanks to:

Prolacta Bioscience
Maternity Motivation LLC
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia
Cigna Healthcare
Dr. Erine Raybon-Rojas

More about these incredible sponsors will be shared in the coming weeks according to their sponsorship level.

Right now, we’re updating the website with speaker information and the full agenda as we prepare for registration to open this Friday.

And through all of it, this is what I keep coming back to:

This conversation matters.

So many of you shared the speaker application link, reached out, and expressed interest in being part of this summit. Thank you. Truly.

The response was powerful, and choosing was not easy.

I was intentional about curating panels with different voices, different roles, and different perspectives—because that is what this work requires.

Maternal–infant care is not just what happens at the bedside.
It extends into homes, communities, and lived experiences.

And if we’re going to do this better, we have to be willing to hear from all sides of it.

In maternal–infant health, we may share a common goal… but we do not all come to the work with the same training, the same lens, or the same perspective.

But different does not mean less valuable.

I choose to believe that most people who do this work care.

We care about mothers.
We care about babies.
We care about safety.
We care about advocacy.
We care about outcomes.
We care about support.

But caring alone is not enough.

We have to put in the work. Together.

This summit is about doing that work.
Together.

More details are coming this week.
Registration opens Friday.

Some weeks remind me why I wrote Anchored In Hope in the first place.This past week was a hard one on my locum assignmen...
04/22/2026

Some weeks remind me why I wrote Anchored In Hope in the first place.

This past week was a hard one on my locum assignment.

There were sick preterm infants I cared for, alongside well babies and older pediatric patients, and I found myself connecting deeply with their families.

In the middle of the long days, the weight of the work, and the emotional load that came with caring for babies who needed extra support, one mama shared this with me after receiving a copy of my devotional.

She told me she had been reading it every day.

And honestly… that blessed me more than she knew.

As physicians, nurses, and caregivers, we pour out so much. And as families, especially NICU and preterm families, there is so much to carry that often goes unseen.

To know that these words met her in that space—that they brought comfort, peace, and strength in the middle of uncertainty—means everything to me.

I wrote Anchored In Hope because NICU and preterm families need more than medical updates.

They need encouragement.
They need to feel seen.
They need something to hold onto when the days feel heavy.

So when a mama tells me she is reading it every day and that it is helping her cope and begin to heal, I’m reminded that this book is doing exactly what I prayed it would do.

If you are a NICU parent, preterm parent, or know a family walking through a hard season, buy a copy or gift a copy of Anchored In Hope today. It’s available on Amazon. Link in bio. 🔗💻

To every family walking through a hard season right now: I pray you know you are not alone. 💚

A Black mother told me this week that she was glad to be here because she didn’t know if she was going to make it out.An...
04/19/2026

A Black mother told me this week that she was glad to be here because she didn’t know if she was going to make it out.

And I felt that in my chest.

Because some gaps in care are still unspoken.

Beneath so many black maternal stories are questions people do not always say out loud:

Will I be heard?
Will my pain be taken seriously?
Will I survive this?
Will my baby?

When I was pregnant, my OB looked like me.
And that made me reflect on how much representation, shared understanding, and compassionate care matter.

This is not about saying excellent care cannot come from people of different backgrounds.

It can.

But being seen matters.
Being heard matters.
And how we respond to families matters.

That is part of why this work matters so deeply to me.

I’ve already sent the first round of speaker emails for Bridging the Birthing Gap™ and I’m finishing them up today.

I want to thank , , for being sponsors. It’s so important to understand that this work cannot be done alone.

I’m SO excited for the conversations, collaboration, and deeper understanding this summit will bring.

Some gaps are clinical.
Some are relational.
Some are cultural.
Some are still left unspoken.

And ALL of them matter.

Black Maternal Health Week may be coming to a close, but this work matters every single day.It matters every time I roun...
04/17/2026

Black Maternal Health Week may be coming to a close, but this work matters every single day.

It matters every time I round and see a Black family in the hospital.
It matters every time I attend a premature delivery.
It matters every time I make sure a mother knows she is seen, heard, and validated.

Today, a mom told me my devotional is helping her.

Her baby was born at 34 weeks because of preeclampsia, and I had the chance to share Anchored In Hope with her. That moment blessed me deeply.

Because this is why I do this work.

I want mothers to know they are not alone in their experience. I want them to know I see THEM—not just their baby as the patient, but them as a mother walking through something difficult, sacred, and life-changing.

My commitment to this work extends beyond Black Maternal Health Week.

It lives in the hospital, at the bedside, in the conversations I have with families, and in the vision behind Bridging the Birthing Gap™, happening in just a few weeks.🙌🏾

Today I’m sending emails to speakers, and next week I’ll be launching the registration page.

If you care for mothers and babies in any capacity, I hope you’ll be part of this conversation. Because improving outcomes starts with building trust, strengthening collaboration, and making sure families feel seen every step of the way.💜

BridgingTheBirthingGap

04/16/2026

Late preterm is STILL preterm.

And when we treat 34–36 week babies like they are “basically term,” we can miss what they still need.

These babies may look bigger and stronger, but they can still struggle with feeding, jaundice, blood sugar, breathing, temperature regulation, and stamina.

That doesn’t mean fear.
It means honest education, close follow-up, and support that does not minimize their prematurity.

Because “almost term” is not the same as term.
And families deserve clarity, preparation, and hope.

Mothers do not always need hope restored immediately. Sometimes they first need their pain witnessed.As I work on a tal...
04/12/2026

Mothers do not always need hope restored immediately.
Sometimes they first need their pain witnessed.

As I work on a talk about trauma-informed strategies to support the NICU experience, that truth keeps coming back to me.

As physicians, we are trained to fix.
To solve.
To intervene.
To make things better.

And while that matters, it can also make us move too quickly past something people often need first:

to be seen.

Because healing is not always without residue.

The bone may heal, but the memory of the break is still there.

The baby may be home from the NICU, but the family may still be carrying fear, grief, hypervigilance, exhaustion, and the weight of all it took to survive that experience.

Most of the time, people desire validation before fixing.
Acknowledgment before improvement.
Witness before reassurance.

They do not always need us to rush in with hope.
Sometimes they need us to pause long enough to say:

This was hard.
This hurt.
You have been carrying so much.

That is not the opposite of hope.
It is often the doorway to real hope.

Trauma-informed care reminds us that the full story matters. Not just the hospitalization. Not just the diagnosis. Not just the outcome.

What existed before this moment matters.
What the family has had to carry matters.
What the experience has cost them matters.

Sometimes the most healing thing we can offer is not immediate reassurance, but a steady witness.

Because in our effort to make people feel better, we can accidentally run past their deeper need to feel seen first.💛

Families feel the impact of disconnected maternal-infant care every single day.That conviction is one of the main reason...
04/08/2026

Families feel the impact of disconnected maternal-infant care every single day.

That conviction is one of the main reasons I created the Bridging the Birthing Gap™ Summit.

For too long, maternal-infant care has functioned in silos.

But families do not experience care in silos.
They experience it as one journey.

They experience the gaps.
The miscommunication.
The mistrust.
The lack of alignment.

If we want better outcomes for mothers and babies, we have to do more than say collaboration matters.

We have to practice it.

That is why this summit matters.

And that is why I’m inviting healthcare organizations, hospital systems, insurance companies, and maternal-infant leaders to sponsor this important work.

This is about more than visibility. It is about investing in stronger collaboration, better connection, and better care for families.

Sponsorship link is in my bio.

Please share with organizations and leaders who care about maternal and infant health. 💜🤰🏽

Easter weekend reminds me that hope can still live in hard places.As a pediatrician and NICU mom, that truth means a lot...
04/04/2026

Easter weekend reminds me that hope can still live in hard places.

As a pediatrician and NICU mom, that truth means a lot to me.

Because when your journey includes fear, waiting, setbacks, or even loss, you come to understand hope differently.

Not as pretending things are easy.
Not as ignoring pain.
But as choosing to believe that God is still present in the middle of it all.

This weekend, I’m holding space for the families celebrating with full hearts…
and for the families carrying grief, worry, or tender memories.

Both can exist.
Hope and heartbreak.
Faith and fear.
Love and longing.

And somehow, resurrection still speaks.💕

We cannot improve maternal and infant health if the care teams themselves are divided.That belief is one of the biggest ...
04/02/2026

We cannot improve maternal and infant health if the care teams themselves are divided.

That belief is one of the biggest reasons I created the Bridging the Birthing Gap Summit.

And the overwhelming response has confirmed what I already felt deeply:

This conversation is overdue.
And people are ready for it.

For too long, maternal-infant care has functioned in silos.

Doulas talking to doulas.
Physicians talking to physicians.
Nurses talking to nurses.
Advocates talking within their own circles.

But families do not experience care in silos.

They experience it as one journey.

They experience the gaps.
The miscommunication.
The mistrust.
The lack of alignment.

If we want better outcomes for mothers and babies, we have to do more than talk about collaboration.

We have to practice it.

That is why this summit matters.

I’m so grateful for the support, the excitement, and the response from people who want to be part of something bigger than their own lane.

Over the coming week, I’ll be reviewing applications with the goal of sending invitations by Friday, April 10.

This is only the beginning.
And I truly believe it can be the start of something important.

If your organization is interested in partnering with or sponsoring this event, feel free to send me a DM.

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