by Guest Blogger | Feb 25, 2015 | Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
The month of February is full of roses, dinner dates, love letters, champagne, and sugary delights in heart shaped boxes… Not exactly the things that a mom in the NICU—sitting in a rocking chair, watching numbers on a monitor, praying her baby will be OK—is...
by Stephanie Goley | Feb 20, 2013 | Emotional Health, Grief & Bereavement, Life after the NICU
As parents, our tendency is to protect our children and solve their problems – sometimes to a fault. Mothers, especially, have a keen sense of being able to predict what their children need, before the children know themselves, and race to provide whatever that...
by Bea Smith | Dec 12, 2012 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
Our son Caleb was born with a rare, not well understood condition called VACTERL association. The rarity and severity of his condition pushed us to go to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for his medical care – over 1,000 miles from home. We have traveled...