UAMS NICU

08/02/2026

Every NICU family has a story. Every story deserves to be heard.

If your family's journey included a stay in the UAMS NICU, we'd love to invite you to join our Family Experience Council. By sharing your experiences, ideas, and perspectives, you can help shape the future of family-centered care and make a lasting difference for future NICU families.

Interested in learning more?

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07/23/2026

Just a few steps to such a great resource for our families! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

07/21/2026

Our Favorite Day!! 👏🏼🥰
Make sure to join us next year!

Gently blowing bubbles flanked the entrances to the Civitan Pavilion at the Little Rock Zoo as former neonatal preemies and their families attended a May 2 reunion with their providers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

07/15/2026

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05/27/2026

Sharing a sweet former patient & UAMS NICU Graduate, Oliver, & his annual birthday project! 💙
With Oliver’s 5th birthday quickly approaching, we wanted to kickstart our book drive for the NICU at UAMS Hospital.

🌟 Our WHY: Oliver was born at 28 weeks and for the first two and a half weeks of his life Chris and I weren’t allowed to hold him, he was just too fragile. During that time the only thing we could do was sit next to his isolette and read to him. It gave us a sense of normalcy and it gave us something to do as a family. During all of the uncertainty of our situation, reading to Oliver gave us hope and it allowed us to escape the trauma that we were going through. Our son spent 83 excruciatingly long days in the NICU and now we’ve made it our mission to give back each year on his birthday. To date, we’ve raised over 1,000 books and almost 300 octopals in the last four years in Oliver’s honor.

We hope these books will give parents the opportunity to spend quality time with their children. And by reading, we hope their voice will carry over the loud machines, beeping and chaos. We also hope the words on the pages will bring both the parents and their babies the same peace that it brought us.

🌟How you can help: Purchase books from our amazon wishlist https://www.amazon.com/registries/gl/guest-view/EA1RDJMJHDOR?ref_=cm_sw_r_mwn_ggr-subnav-share_5RJO3OCI50ECR88DNYD7&language=en-US 📚 Books will be donated to UAMS NICU in September to kick off their Read-A-Thon.

As Oliver grows up we want him to be a bright light in the world. We want him to know that no matter how dark the world may seem, he can do good and inspire others to do the same. Our little passion project that we dreamt up one night during our own NICU stay has now turned into a yearly charity drive with donors over multiple states. Family members, friends, and strangers alike all come together with one goal in mind, to give back. None of this would be possible without the support from our family and friends! Thank you for loving us and rooting for us.

Love,
Chelsea, Chris and Oliver

05/14/2026

The BEST NICU!! 🤍🙌🏻🧡

05/08/2026

05/06/2026

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UAMS NICU Reunion 2026!!

05/05/2026

Rick at Sidebottom Photography wants to apologize for the glitch on the website. He has it fixed now and you can get your Free Download now.

05/05/2026

By the end of the business on Monday, May 4, 2026, the 2026 NICU Reunion Gallery will be open for you to get to your folder with your family photos. Here is what you will need to do:

Go to https://arkansasschoolphotography.accessmyevent.com/UAMSNICU2026 or scan the QR Code below.
Put in the name (first and last) you put on the piece of paper and the password is your email address you put on the piece of paper.
If your email does not work, please call 501-365-1495. Some of the emails were hard to read. Rick will give you the email for your gallery.
You will be able to download your free image.
If you want prints, you have that option. Once you select the image(s) you would like printed and submit. The image will go directly to our lab and will be printed and mailed to you (in about 4 days – you know how the mail is) at the address you will provide upon ordering and paying for the prints.


If you have any questions or concerns, please call Rick Sidebottom at 501-365-1495.

The place to order and share your photos.