by Lesley Donaldson-Reid | Apr 13, 2015 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources, Professional Insight
It’s important to prepare yourself and your family to take your baby to the emergency room (ER) even if you don’t know when that emergency will happen. Preemies and other NICU babies going home may have diagnosed medical problems such as hydrocephalus from...
by Angie Bickford | Nov 12, 2014 | Life after the NICU
It was the moment she stopped breathing. Having lost her triplet brother earlier in the year, there’s no question this was the last straw that triggered my PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). It wasn’t the bed rest, the 27-week preterm delivery, the...
by Dani Curliss | Oct 23, 2013 | Life after the NICU
At times while visiting our sweet, tiny girl in the NICU, I would hear a knock at the door of the nurse’s station. It wasn’t the normal entrance to the NICU, so once I realized who was on the other side of the door, a pang of jealousy and bitterness would hit. They...
