by Hand to Hold Staff | Oct 20, 2016 | Life after the NICU
“Yes I Can” Starts with Coaching by Us At some point, parents and caregivers have to cross a hard bridge: to tell a child about his disability. Admittedly, I didn’t watch a lot of the coverage of the sports coverage from Rio this year. However, when...
by Kelli Kelley | Oct 6, 2016 | Life after the NICU, Mental Health, News
Many people have strong reactions to and opinions about being told, “everything happens for a reason.” I recently read an article that equated these words to “nothing less than emotional, spiritual and psychological violence.” I know while my son was clinging to life...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Sep 29, 2016 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
A similar version of this post was originally published in March of 2014. I’ve always been career driven, knowing since I was a child that I would someday be a television news anchor. Yet people often told me, “Your priorities will change once you have kids.” I didn’t...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Sep 22, 2016 | Life after the NICU, News, NICU Life, Reviews & Giveaways, Siblings
This page contains affiliate links. Hand to Hold only recommends products we’ve either personally checked out ourselves or come from people we know and trust. For doing so, Hand to Hold may receive a commission, which helps us fund the development of the valuable...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Sep 15, 2016 | Life after the NICU
This is Jeannie. I met Jeannie in the NICU when she was assigned to my identical twin girls one Saturday afternoon. Still early enough in our NICU stay, we had bounced around from nurse to nurse, a new face each day, a new name to try not to forget, and a new...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Sep 12, 2016 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources
Whether your baby is diagnosed in utero or after birth, the diagnosis of hydrocephalus comes as a shock to any parent. A sad fact is that Intraventricular Hemorrhage (IVH) is the leading cause of hydrocephalus in preterm infants and varying levels of IVH are very...
