by Melissa Haber | Jun 13, 2012 | Emotional Health, Family Stories, Fatherhood, Life after the NICU
I witnessed the scene countless times during Daphne’s five-month stay: a father entering the NICU for the first time. He approaches the incubator alone, tentatively, blue gown over his clothes. Peeking into the acrylic incubator from a few feet away, he is approached...
by Melissa Haber | May 21, 2012 | Pregnancy & Bedrest
I had a plan. I wanted two children. My first daughter was a winter baby, and after a gloomy postpartum period, I decided my second should come in the spring, so I could be out and about during maternity leave. When Lucy was two and a half I got pregnant, with a due...