by Kayla Aimee | Nov 16, 2015 | Life after the NICU
In 2010 my daughter was born fifteen and a half weeks early, making her February due date give way to a November birthday. Spending our first Christmas with our first child in the hospital, still unsure of whether or not we would ever bring her home, was incredibly...
by Kayla Aimee | Jul 1, 2015 | Family Stories, NICU Life
The heart of my story centers on my journey to motherhood, the one in which I found myself joyfully pregnant after years of infertility only to then give birth unexpectedly at just 25 weeks. We named her Scarlette and she weighed one pound, eight point six ounces. And...
by Kayla Aimee | Jun 12, 2015 | Life after the NICU
Feeding my micro-preemie was never easy. First there was that whole thing about how she was born at 25 weeks and weighed less than my typical dinner plate. Then that whole thing about about how she needed to be fed through a tube. And how after that she had tongue...
by Kayla Aimee | Jul 9, 2014 | Life after the NICU
My daughter was born at 25 weeks on November 7, 2010. She came home 156 days later on April 12, 2011. In November we throw her a birthday party, complete with banners and balloons and birthday cake. This year she asked to have a tea party and we sipped warm apple...
by Kayla Aimee | Apr 2, 2014 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
I’m sitting on a slotted wooden bench, nearly shoulder to shoulder with the other moms. We’re strangers mostly but we share a common thread, linking us on this bench as we talk among ourselves, pausing often to gaze intently through the two-way glass set...
