by Michelle Hensel | Mar 6, 2013 | Emotional Health, NICU Life, Siblings
Three-year-olds have a way of accepting life as it is, not as how it should be. They only know that things are the way they are. They don’t have the capacity to think, “It wasn’t supposed to be like this” or “I wish it were...
by Michelle Hensel | Jan 30, 2013 | Life after the NICU
When my first child rolled over for the first time, her daddy and I cheered. We applauded her when she sat and later when she crawled. We laughed when she said her first word, “duck”, and laughed more when she began calling everything...
by Michelle Hensel | Nov 12, 2012 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
My former micro-preemies are now 2 1/2 years old. They started pre-school this year, and in many ways, they are doing exactly what other 2 year olds are doing. Aside from being smaller than other 2 year olds, strangers wouldn’t know they were one pound...
by Michelle Hensel | Sep 20, 2012 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
Having a baby in the NICU is an emotional time for any parent. As a NICU parent, you are thrown into a completely new world. You are overwhelmed with medical information, insurance claims, emotional stress, and more, all while trying to somehow maintain your life...
by Michelle Hensel | Aug 8, 2012 | Emotional Health
You can spot them from afar. The NICU moms are the ones with bags under their eyes gazing enviously upon the moms being wheeled out of the hospital holding their big, healthy babies in their laps balloons floating all around them congratulating them on the birth of...
