“…Indeed, parents may experience anxiety, fear, sadness, regret, joy, hope, or other emotions at any perceived sign of their child’s physiological recovery or downward spiral. Weiss and Fiester (2018) rightly note that children admitted to quaternary pediatric institutions, especially to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) or neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), tend to be those with complex disease and often include classic textbook pediatric illnesses. This might include hypoplastic left heart syndrome, respiratory syncytial virus, retinoblastoma, necrotizing enterocolitis, childhood leukemia, traumatic injury, or other pediatric anomalies (Ulrich 2017).…”