by Babs Haller | Mar 28, 2016 | Life after the NICU
March is Sleep Awareness Month! For more information on preemies and sleep, visit our sleep archives. Trusting Your Baby Without Monitoring It’s a huge relief to finally have your baby home from the NICU, but there can be anxiety leaving the dedicated staff and...
by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | Aug 26, 2015 | Family Stories, Inspiration, Life after the NICU
This month and next we celebrate 5 years since our twin boys were discharged from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. I remember each of those days like they were yesterday. We have come such a very long way since those early days of fear and uncertainty. Since then we...
by Keira Sorrells | Jul 18, 2014 | Emotional Health, Grief & Bereavement, Life after the NICU
It was a cold, clear day in February, the sun was shining through the windows of our playroom and my daughters, Avery and Lily were busy investigating a new toy, pushing every button and making every song sing over and over and over again. Unfortunately, their sister...
by Babs Haller | Jan 3, 2014 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources
Some preemie parents haven’t selected a pediatrician prior to birth because they figured they had forty weeks to do so. I, however, had selected mine based on quite a bit of research. In retrospect, I hadn’t been asking the right questions at all. Preemies and preemie...
by Kayla Aimee | Sep 9, 2013 | NICU Life
My daughter was two months old on the day that I discovered that I had missed her first bath. And her second. And her third. And I don’t actually know how many others because I was too embroiled in my emotions, simultaneously outraged and heartbroken, to ask....
