From the Editor · Cover story
A Letter to Readers
How a memoir turned into a magazine, and what we are (and aren’t) claiming to be.
In this issue
Issue One Theme
The Watching Hours
Why our first issue is about what happens once the monitors are gone.
Mission
Why This Magazine Exists
Readable for families, but careful and well-sourced enough to be useful to the researchers and clinicians we also want to reach.
Research Digest
The Watching Hours: What the Research Actually Says About Home Seizure Detection
Research Gaps Spotlight
The Missing Pathway
Why the open question in home monitoring after neonatal HIE isn’t about a better sensor. It’s about a tested answer to who acts, and when.
From the Book
Six Months Without a Night
A reflection on Chapter Nine, the chapter that gave this issue’s Research Gaps Spotlight its opening question.
Issue 01
Why our first issue is about what happens once the monitors are gone.
- 01A Letter to Readers
- 02Why This Magazine Exists
- 03The Watching Hours
- 04About the Research Behind This Issue
- 05The Watching Hours: What the Research Actually Says About Home Seizure Detection
- 06The Missing Pathway
- 07Template for Future Issues
- 08What Would a First Study Actually Look Like?
- 09Six Months Without a Night
- 10About the Section & Call for Submissions
- 11What Watching Costs
- 12Glossary
- 13Contributor Guidelines
- 14Editorial Standards
- 15Medical Disclaimer
- 16AI Use Policy
- 17Corrections Policy
- 18Ethics & Conflicts of Interest Policy
- 19Copyright & Permissions
- 20Where This Leaves Us
Topics
Neonatal Care
The NICU and the months that follow it.
Brain Injury
HIE and newborn neurological outcomes.
Family Life
Caregiving, siblings and the everyday.
Research Gaps
The questions the evidence has not answered yet.
A More Inclusive Future
Care that makes room for every family.
For medical students & healthcare professionals
Call for Articles
Contribute your perspective on neonatal care, HIE, child development, medical innovation, and life beyond the NICU.
Proposals accepted on a rolling basis — no fixed deadline
Read the invitation & submit an article →Our editorial standard
Lived experience raises questions. It isn’t evidence.
Perspectives
Personal accounts are published as testimony. They describe what families saw and felt, and they are labeled that way.
Research
Research content is kept separate and relies on cited sources. We do not present a personal story as proof of a medical claim.
Questions
Where the two meet, we ask questions that researchers and clinicians can test.
About the magazine
Where the memoir ends, the questions begin.
Beyond the Heartbeats extends the memoir The Silence Between Two Heartbeats, a father’s story of the NICU and newborn brain injury, into an ongoing publication.
Each issue brings together research, perspectives and open questions for families, clinicians, researchers and students in neonatal care.
Editorial & Contributions
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