by Kelli Kelley | Apr 29, 2019 | Emotional Health
As I rapidly approach my 50s, I find I don’t care quite as much as I once did about what other people think of me. It is one of the few things about getting older that I appreciate. It is a refreshing change to be comfortable in my own skin. Once I would have been...
by Danielle Dreger | Apr 15, 2019 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, NICU Life
When my son, Theo, was born at 27 weeks in 2014, I went from blissfully pregnant to survival mode in a matter of hours. For six-and-a-half months I sat by Theo’s incubator, and later crib, bonding with him as best I could while he was hooked up to monitors,...
by Beth Puskas | May 10, 2018 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
I first read Dr. Seuss’s My Many Colored Days last year when my then 4-year-old son brought it home from preschool and requested I read it to him. My Many Colored Days is children’s book to help children understand the wide range of emotions all of us...
by Guest Blogger | Jul 21, 2016 | Emotional Health, Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
The following post is the second part of a three-part series on PPD and PTSD in NICU parents. Visit part 1 of the series: Postpartum Depression and PTSD in Fathers, and stay tuned for Part 3 in August! We have heard more and more in the news about how common...
by Jessie Threlkeld | Jul 14, 2016 | Emotional Health
I was standing in line at Vons, my cart full of packaged “healthy” food for my week in the NICU, when the lady in front of me turned to the side. I felt my face get hot and tears began to fall as I saw her round, swollen belly. She smiled at me and I...
