Posts: Family Stories

The Gift of Gratitude

by Ali Dunn | Feb 21, 2019 | Family Stories

I just assumed that when I was ready to have a baby, I would. I had no reason to believe that getting pregnant would pose any difficulty for me. I was relatively young, healthy and had no untreated medical issues. But I was wrong. Like many other women, pregnancy for...

Team Hand to Hold Featured Runner: Ashley Presnell

by Leigh Ann Torres | Feb 7, 2019 | Family Stories

“Knowing that I can help in any way, big or small, has made me a better person.” — Ashley Presnell, NICU parent, volunteer peer mentor and Team Hand to Hold member This week’s featured runner, Ashley Presnell, didn’t know about Hand to Hold...

Team Hand to Hold Featured Runner: Cesar Romero

by Leigh Ann Torres | Jan 24, 2019 | Family Stories

The secret to living is giving. – Tony Robbins That’s the driving motto behind Team Hand to Hold member Cesar Romero‘s passion for giving back. Cesar joined Team Hand to Hold in early January and threw himself into fundRACING for NICU and bereaved...

Pregnancy After a Preemie

by Ima Carnelus | Jan 14, 2019 | Family Stories, Life after the NICU

People often ask me how it feels to be pregnant after a preemie, and honestly, sometimes it’s surreal. You see three and a half years ago, having another baby was far from our minds. I had given birth to our son Jaxson at 22 weeks, 6 days, and we endured the NICU...

Storms End

by Shanna Thompson | Jan 10, 2019 | Family Stories, Life after the NICU

“First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes…” Well, my guess is that if you’re reading this blog, your journey to that baby in a carriage hasn’t been the childhood rhyme you pictured. When we suddenly realized we were pregnant, years before we intended to be...

A Family’s First Christmas in the Hospital from a Dad’s Perspective

by Guest Blogger | Dec 24, 2018 | Family Stories

by Charles George I remember our first Christmas with our son, Thomas. It was December 2012. Neither my wife nor myself anticipated being in the hospital, over an hour away from our home, with our son on Christmas day. Thomas was born at the University of Virginia...

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