by Leigh Ann Torres | Mar 16, 2016 | Emotional Health, NICU Life
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” — e.e. cummings “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” — Lord Byron “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion” — Truvy (Steel Magnolias) Any...
by Kara Wahlin | Feb 8, 2016 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
The day after my son William died, my husband and I went to the hospital to see his twin Elliott in the NICU. We had agreed that being near Elliott would be the only thing that would feel ok that day. We were both mostly silent. I remember feeling very otherworldly,...
by Julie Cruz | Jan 15, 2016 | Life after the NICU
I’m a saver! I love to hang on to mementos. I love tangible things that bring back vivid memories. I have the most mementos from our preemie Haley’s NICU stay. Every year around her birthday and homecoming day I pull out the box and remember. I remember how tiny she...
by Brittany Shives | Dec 28, 2015 | Emotional Health, NICU Life
When we were pregnant with our first baby, we did all the things most couples do to prepare for her arrival. We cleared out a room, set up the crib and read dozens of pregnancy books. However, when my water broke seven weeks early, we were thrown into an unfamiliar...
by Andrea Mullenmeister | Dec 2, 2015 | Emotional Health
It’s been three years since my son, Jaxson, was born more than four months early and I still relive the experience, scene for scene, when I see or hear a helicopter. I am there. I feel the rumble of the helicopter blades. I smell the humid July air. I taste the fear...
