WHO WE ARE
Parent Life is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit born at the bedside.
We’re the parents of a child who spent months in the hospital; through prenatal complications, major surgeries with complications, and intensive care that spanned seemingly endless teams and specialties. What we learned wasn’t just how to survive a medical crisis. It was how much parents and caregivers are expected to absorb, manage, and advocate for while doing so.
We created Parent Life to make that experience less overwhelming, more informed, and far better supported.
HOW WE HELP
Parent Life is a nonprofit focused on supporting parents of hospitalized children. We’re building tools, resources, and care programs designed to address the specific (and often invisible) challenges that parents and caregivers face in the hospital setting.
We focus our support on:
Bedside Comfort
We provide access to comfort library items like sleeping pads and thoughtfully curated comfort gift kits to make daily life at the bedside more bearable. These go beyond standard hospital toiletry bags, focusing instead on what’s truly needed based on lived experience and real feedback.We help parents and caregivers become confident, informed members of every child’s care team. That means learning how to easily read vitals monitors, decode medical jargon, and understand who’s who in the hospital hierarchy. While we may not have medical degrees, we’re the only ones present for every shift, every symptom, every subtle change, and that perspective is powerful.
Shared Experiences
We’re building a space for parents and caregivers to connect, share stories, exchange tips, and remind each other they’re not alone. Whether it’s your first admission or your fifteenth, there’s value in community, in solidarity, in wisdom, and in knowing someone else gets it. No one understands this life like another parent living it.
WHY it matters
Parent Life is tailored specifically for non-medical caregivers.
Whether we want to or not, parents and caregivers of hospitalized children are challenged to become experts in our child’s care. We’re expected to follow complex medical plans, interpret unfamiliar language, and advocate for our children all while running on little sleep, living out of a hospital room, and holding our families together.
We are the generalists in a sea of specialists; the only ones who witness every shift, every symptom, and every subtle change. And that continuity, intuition, and lived-in perspective makes us critical members of the care team.
Too often, we’re left to figure it all out alone.
Parent Life exists to change that one parent, one hospital stay, one act of support at a time.