May 2024
Jennifer
Tedeschi
,
RN
3700 Neonatal ICU
Loma Linda University Children's Hospital
Loma Linda
,
CA
United States
She not only took care of our baby’s medical needs, but also our family’s emotional needs.
I'm an Emergency Department physician at Loma Linda University. But I met Jennifer Tedeschi as a Neonatal ICU parent. After taking care of my baby for a few nights, we asked her to be our baby's night primary. Jenn is an incredible human and nurse! She not only took care of our baby’s medical needs, but also our family’s emotional needs. In her free time at home, Jenn made all kinds of things for my daughter to make her little NICU spot as home-like as possible. She made her little signs and even made her ornaments for her very first Christmas with her hand and footprints. Jenn was there for us when we were scared out of our minds with our baby on a jet. She taught us that we could be parents and do parent things even when our baby was really sick. For example, she taught us how to bathe her and took the fear out of it for us. Words cannot describe how much Jenn’s compassion and kindness mean to us. My baby misses her Auntie Jenn so much and so do we!