by Hand to Hold Staff | Apr 27, 2017 | Medical Info & Resources, NICU Life, Professional Insight
UPDATED JUNE 2020 When a baby is born premature or with special health care needs, they require immediate, intensive care. With all the medical interventions and monitoring it’s easy to start seeing your baby as a patient, instead of the little person that they...
by Kathy McClelland | Jan 8, 2016 | Emotional Health
We had been in the NICU for just a couple of weeks when a nurse stopped me in the bay just near my son’s bed. “I’m Chris. I’m the charge nurse.” she said. I don’t remember my response. It was probably as polite as I could muster,...
by Kayla Aimee | Jun 12, 2015 | Life after the NICU
Feeding my micro-preemie was never easy. First there was that whole thing about how she was born at 25 weeks and weighed less than my typical dinner plate. Then that whole thing about about how she needed to be fed through a tube. And how after that she had tongue...
by Angie Bickford | Jul 23, 2014 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources
We had a great chat on Wednesday, June 25th with Julie Wahrenberger, a speech language pathologist with Spring Branch Speech Therapy. Julie discussed how to overcome feeding obstacles with your NICU baby. So if you missed it, check it out below! ...
by Melissa Haber | Feb 21, 2014 | Life after the NICU
One of my happiest moments during my daughter’s five-month NICU stay was one morning when I called her primary nurse, and she told me Daphne had drunk an entire bottle of expressed breast milk. A whole 40ml of milk, by mouth (that’s just slightly over one ounce, for...
