by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | May 4, 2015 | Medical Info & Resources, NICU Life, Siblings
May 5 is World Hand Hygiene Day Okay, so we all know it’s important to wash our hands throughout the day, but do you really take hand hygiene that seriously? According to Judah G, Aunger R, Schmidt WP, Michie S, Granger S, Curtis V., “Despite widespread knowledge of...
by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | Mar 13, 2015 | Emotional Health, NICU Life, Siblings
The NICU experience can be a bewildering and frightening experience for the parents of a premature or unwell baby, so imagine the idea of a NICU from a young child’s perspective. One day mom is at home, caring for the child and the next morning mom is nowhere to be...
by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | Nov 17, 2014 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, NICU Life
The moment you have a premature child you are faced with uncertainty and sometimes that uncertainty is caused by mixed messages and information which can make you feel like you were just hit by a Mack truck. Those sharing their ideas or thoughts on prematurity and how...
by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | Aug 20, 2014 | Life after the NICU
Your preemie has been home from the NICU for some time now. You’ve watched your baby grow from a tiny preemie that could fit in the palm of your hand to a toddling one or two year old. You might have to consider daycare… or should it be a nanny? This is a big question...
by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | May 9, 2014 | Emotional Health, NICU Life
I’ve felt it and said it a few times and if you’re the mother of a premature child, you may have thought the same too. When my premature children were born, I felt as though I had been robbed of the chance to have a “normal” pregnancy and delivery. I didn’t experience...
