The woman who's cared for thousands of the tiniest patients — and the families who love them — now shares her expertise with the world.
After 46 years of working in the NICU at Maine Medical Center, Sandy Fournier has seen it all — the fear in parents' eyes on day one, the quiet celebrations of first breaths and first holds, and the joyful tears on going-home day.
She's also seen what's missing. Parents left to figure out which products actually work around monitors and wires. New nurses overwhelmed by the gap between textbook knowledge and bedside reality. Families isolated by an experience that no one around them understands.
TinyVictory is Sandy's answer to that gap. It's the resource hub she wished existed for every family she's ever cared for — and every new nurse she's ever trained.
"I remember our first 22-weeker who survived and went home with family. We all celebrated the advances and milestones. That baby is a teenager now."
"Early in my career, we didn't have kangaroo care. When the research started showing what skin-to-skin contact does for these babies, it changed everything. I've watched babies stabilize the moment they touched their parent's chest. There's no technology that replaces that."
"The hardest part of NICU nursing isn't the medicine. It's the 3 AM conversation with a mom who's terrified she'll lose her baby. You can't fix that with a medication. You fix it with presence, honesty, and sometimes just sitting there quietly."
Every NICU family deserves expert guidance, not Google rabbit holes. Every product recommendation should come from someone who's actually used it in a NICU, not an influencer. And every new NICU nurse deserves a mentor who remembers what it feels like to be overwhelmed.
That's TinyVictory. One nurse's lifetime of wisdom, made accessible to every family and caregiver who needs it.