by Julie Cruz | Mar 16, 2015 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life, Pregnancy & Bedrest
Many of you have been reading our blog articles for some time now, but did you know many of the contributors are book authors as well? Our experiences in the NICU or during a high risk pregnancy have caused us to want to share not only our experience, but the...
by Rebecca Wood | Jan 7, 2015 | Grief & Bereavement, Life after the NICU, Pregnancy & Bedrest
After the birth of my micropreemie due to severe early onset preeclampsia and HELLP, I stepped off of the baby train. That was it, we were done. My husband and I are finished having children. We have one. People seem to think that the size of our family is their...
by Summer Hill-Vinson | Nov 7, 2014 | Pregnancy & Bedrest
The year after my son was born at 26 weeks, my ob-gyn suggested I see a high-risk specialist to discuss the possibility of having another preemie. Here are five things I wish I’d known when I was choosing a high-risk obstetrician, or a maternal-fetal medicine...
by Heather Hucks | Oct 20, 2014 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life, Pregnancy & Bedrest
When too many numbers get jumbled in my head, it’s overwhelming. Even on a good day. I came this close to failing my mandatory college statistics class. I would tell you what this close means in percentages, but herein lies my point, I’m that bad at...
by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | Apr 9, 2014 | Emotional Health, Family Stories, Fatherhood, NICU Life, Pregnancy & Bedrest
If you’re anything like me, while growing up you didn’t have a real-life connection to a mother who experienced a multiple-births pregnancy. Instead you may have been accustomed to believe the romanticized and perfect versions of having multiples, which you might have...
by Laura Maikata | Mar 19, 2014 | Family Stories, Inspiration, Pregnancy & Bedrest
“He’s a [medical] miracle,” said half a dozen medical professionals during his first year of life. At my annual physical my OBGYN held my one-year-old’s hands and walked him around the room. She talked about his day of birth like it had been yesterday. She wore a...
