by Kathy McClelland | Oct 23, 2017 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources, News, Reviews & Giveaways
The giveaway period has ended, but please continue reading for tips on tube feeding! Before my son was born I knew nothing about feeding tubes. I naively thought they were for elderly and severely brain injured patients. Never in a million years could I have imagined...
by Laura Maikata | Jun 10, 2015 | Family Stories, Fatherhood, Inspiration, Life after the NICU
My husband was a preemie and a special needs child. I guess I’d always known that, though I’d never applied “special needs” to anything to do with him. After the birth of our third child, however, I saw that part of my spouse’s past in a new way. My husband was born...
by Shoshana Koch | Jun 3, 2015 | Medical Info & Resources, NICU Life
While on three-day hospital bed rest with PPROM, I researched what was required to create a breast milk supply under these circumstances: our son was going to be an extremely low birth weight, premature, and sick baby. He would be separated from me at birth,...
by Laura Martin | Nov 5, 2014 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources
It was Thanksgiving lunch at Joseph’s school. Parents and grandparents had joined their children in the school cafeteria for a special Thanksgiving celebration. Because of Joseph’s multiple food allergies and compromised gastrointestinal system due to short bowel...
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...
