by Hand to Hold Staff | May 18, 2016 | Life after the NICU
When you bring home your NICU baby, nurses or pediatricians or NICU doctors may have thrown around the words “winter lockdown” and “preemies are more susceptible…” and to “keep them isolated.” What does this look like when...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Apr 29, 2016 | Life after the NICU, Mental Health, NICU Life
Dear NICU parent, First of all, congratulations on bringing life into this world! I don’t know how you got to this point. Whether your labor was long or short. Whether this moment was a surprise or a day that you have been anticipating after months on bedrest. I do...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Apr 20, 2016 | Life after the NICU, Mental Health
My second son was born with a long list of medical complications and special needs that sent him to the NICU the night we was born. He became so sick that he was transferred from his delivery hospital to the NICU of our local Children’s hospital. He wasn’t...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Apr 18, 2016 | Life after the NICU
My 8-year-old twin girls graduated from occupational therapy last week. Our journey in therapy has not been a long one. For years I counted us among the lucky ones: 31-weekers who, through babyhood and toddlerhood, showed no immediate signs of needing assistance. They...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Apr 13, 2016 | Life after the NICU
When your child hits milestones, it is one of the greatest feelings in the world. We all get excited, jump up and down, and share the news with pretty much everyone we know. When you have a preemie in the NICU or just home from the NICU, what happens? Do they still...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Apr 6, 2016 | Life after the NICU, Mental Health
For the last sixteen months I have been in a love-hate relationship with my breast pump, often logging more hours with it than my husband. Six months ago I could produce five ounces of breastmilk in the time it took me to watch an episode of the Mindy Project at...
