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...
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...
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...
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...
by Lindsay Rosenfeld | Dec 20, 2018 | Emotional Health, Family Stories, Inspiration, Life after the NICU
Birth day: a day to celebrate the birth of your child Gotcha day: a day to celebrate taking your child home; i.e. “getting them” Some of us don’t leave the hospital three – five days after giving birth with typically eating, breathing, growing babies. Yet, many...
by Shanna Thompson | Nov 29, 2018 | Family Stories
It’s early on a cold Friday morning, we’re loading up the car to drive two and a half hours to an out-of-state hospital. It’s one of the top children’s hospitals in the country. It’s a place I never dreamed we’d need. It’s been almost four-and-a-half years since we...
