by Erica Kingsbury | Mar 27, 2017 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
My son is nearly 15 months old. Some days I look at my busy, clumsy toddler and forget that the NICU ever happened. Other days I remember it like it was yesterday, the memories of our month in the NICU still so vividly alive in my mind. Where we currently live, I...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Feb 13, 2017 | News
This month Huggies® launched their smallest diaper yet, the Little Snugglers Nano Preemie diaper, designed to fit micro preemies weighing under two pounds. Develoed in partnership with NICU nurses as a part of Huggies’® No Baby Unhugged program, the diaper is...
by Guest Blogger | Jan 23, 2017 | Medical Info & Resources, NICU Life, Professional Insight
by Dawn K. Gibson, LCSW When you initially became pregnant, birthing your baby and having him or her whisked away to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) by hospital staff was most likely not in your plan. Many parents know that bonding after childbirth is...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Jan 11, 2017 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life
Cues are How Your Baby Communicates Cues are the signals your baby uses to show what they are feeling and how they are coping with the world around them. Babies can show this both through their behavior and through changes in their physiological state. Your Baby’s...
by Shanna Thompson | May 11, 2016 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life
“She’s yours. What do you think?” Those words hit me like a ton of bricks. We had been home from our 12 week NICU stay for about 6 months. Our 27 weeker was now 9 months old. It was the weekend and I had called the on-call number for our pediatrician to ask if I...
