Dr Aayushi Joshi Nautiyal is a paediatrician and neonatologist whose understanding of child health was shaped long before medical school. She spent her childhood years across the Himalayan belt of Uttarakhand — from the high ranges of Uttarkashi and the lakes of Nainital to the forest reserves of Ramnagar, and from the Yamuna banks of Vikasnagar to the Ganga flowing through Rishikesh and Haridwar. Growing up in these regions, she witnessed early how geography, limited access, cultural silence, and delayed care continue to affect maternal and child health, even in modern times.

Motivated by these realities, she pursued formal medical training and completed her MD, after which she has worked continuously in paediatrics and neonatal care. Her clinical practice spans both general paediatrics and NICU-based care in Uttarakhand, where she combines bedside medicine with a strong focus on communication, counselling, and family-centred care.

Over the past seven years, she has developed a focused academic interest in parental anxiety, stress, and counselling in neonatal and paediatric settings. These themes form the core of her research work and reflect her belief that effective paediatric care must address parents and families as intentionally as it treats children.

Despite being early in her career, she has authored and co-authored five books and multiple peer-reviewed chapters and papers, including work on neonatal pain, parental counselling, holistic newborn care, and the use of artificial intelligence in medicine. She is also the listed innovator of four nationally recognised medical intellectual property rights and copyrights for original clinical tools and training innovations.

Alongside her clinical and academic work, she has been actively involved in community service and training initiatives, conducting basic life support and first-aid education sessions for forest officers, military cadets, school teachers, and children. She is the founder of Sukaya, a non-profit initiative dedicated to improving paediatric and geriatric health access in Himalayan regions through awareness, early intervention, and community-based support.

This book reflects the way she practices medicine — grounded, evidence-based, and deeply respectful of the realities families face.