by Carolyn Leighton-Hilborn | Mar 13, 2015 | Emotional Health, NICU Life, Siblings
The NICU experience can be a bewildering and frightening experience for the parents of a premature or unwell baby, so imagine the idea of a NICU from a young child’s perspective. One day mom is at home, caring for the child and the next morning mom is nowhere to be...
by Kathy McClelland | Dec 17, 2014 | NICU Life, Siblings
My heart was torn in two when I realized that my second child would be in the NICU for a long while. How could I possibly include his older sibling in a NICU stay? Now I had two children and I wanted to be with both of them at the same time. The NICU makes that...
by Amy Carr | May 3, 2013 | Emotional Health, NICU Life, Siblings
Hand to Hold, a national NICU parent support nonprofit, hosted a FB Chat on April 30, 2013 with Child Life Specialist Julie May of Dell Children’s Medical Center who facilitated a discussion on ways to care for siblings during and after a baby’s NICU stay....