by Angie Bickford | Feb 14, 2014 | Emotional Health
Join us on Friday, February 21, 2014 from 11:30am-12:30pm CT on Hand to Hold’s Facebook Wall for our next chat, which will feature psychologist Patricia Stuart, PhD. During the chat, Dr. Stuart will be discussing the impacts of a NICU stay or loss on...
by Babs Haller | Oct 29, 2013 | Emotional Health, Grief & Bereavement, Life after the NICU
In a perfect world, I would have celebrated Jack’s sixth birthday in June at a swimming party with friends, family, and Jack. But since he passed away when I was five and a half months pregnant, I have found my own ways to celebrate and remember him. In recognition of...
by Keira Sorrells | Oct 7, 2013 | Emotional Health, Grief & Bereavement
It was about 9 months after the death of my 14 month-old daughter, Zoe. Zoe was a triplet born at 25 weeks 5 days and had spent over 9 months in the NICU. While everyone grieves differently, I felt for a long time that I had to feel the pain deeply and intensely in...
by Bea Smith | Mar 4, 2013 | Emotional Health, Family Stories, Fatherhood, Life after the NICU, NICU Life, Siblings
For me, the hardest thing about being a parent to a special needs child is watching Caleb, our son who was born with VACTERL, go through what he has gone through: a NICU stay, four surgeries, numerous hospitalizations and ER visits, countless specialist appointments,...
by Kathryn Whitaker | Jun 4, 2012 | Emotional Health, Family Stories, Fatherhood
Counseling. That wasn’t a word I used, or though of, often. After all, my husband and I had a great marriage, built on faith, trust and love. We had weathered some rocky storms – a big move to another state, graduate school, another big move, a...
