Before we mention today’s guest – a quick update about The NICU Space Podcast. Today’s episode wraps up season 3, and we’re going to be taking a short break over Christmas and early 2026. We hope that you and your family also manage a restful time over Christmas, whatever that looks like for you.
Today’s guest, Ola, is the founder of the charity “Colourful Beginnings”, which she created after having two premature babies in NICU. The charity does so much good work to support other NICU parents, primarily around sending out “treasure boxes” of things the parents can keep and know that they are being thought of.
She joins us to talk through her experiences in NICU, how the charity got started and the work that they do to help others going through the same.
In this episode, we’re chatting about:
- Ola’s experiences of having her first child at 23 weeks and her second at 29 weeks
- The disbelief and shock she went through on learning she was pregnant for a second time
- What led to her creating the charity, Colourful Beginnings
- The Colourful Beginnings treasure boxes and how the charity works to support other NICU parents
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