by Kasey Mathews | Apr 15, 2013 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
If you’re like me, the mention of the tiny, three letter word, flu, can cause your palms to sweat, your stomach to sink and in the worst of moments, your knees to buckle. The latter happened to me a few years back when the entire country was in pure panic over...
by Kasey Mathews | Jan 21, 2013 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, News, Reviews & Giveaways
Before my daughter’s final surgery, the surgery where the doctors would reconnect the piece of intestine they had originally looped through the outside of her abdomen, I was hanging on by a thread. A very thin thread that snapped long before that surgery date even...
by Kasey Mathews | Dec 19, 2012 | Emotional Health
I used to love the holidays. The sparkle of white lights, the smell of evergreen, the sound of Bing Crosby Christmas carols. And then I spent a Christmas in our home, while our baby lay in an incubator in a hospital an hour away. That year, the arrival of Christmas...
by Kasey Mathews | Oct 22, 2012 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources
This is still the hardest part of the story to tell. The story of my girl born way-too-soon, weighing way-too-little. Because this is the point in the story where we let our guard down. Where we actually let ourselves believe that our girl’s prematurity was behind...
by Kasey Mathews | Aug 6, 2012 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
When my son was born on his due date, the midwife placed him on my chest before his umbilical cord was cut. We stared into each other’s eyes, exchanging telepathic messages. Mine to him – You’re here. You’re real. His to me – I am here. You’re my mother....
