by Hand to Hold Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Medical Info & Resources
Babies who have spent time in the NICU have higher rates of rehospitalization than other infants. Even if your child was only discharged from the NICU a few days or weeks before needing to return to the hospital, you will most likely find yourself in the Pediatric...
by Cheryl Silinskas | Mar 12, 2018 | Life after the NICU
To those wishing for your preemies to crawl and walk, you may also want to wish that: 1. They will feel confident and proud to meet each milestone and not at all embarrassed about the social media postings, videos, and photography we share. 2. They will be able to...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Feb 5, 2018 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life
It’s true; nothing can ever really prepare you for being a parent. As a mom or dad you probably never thought you would also be advocating for your child as medical investigator, insurance expert and crisis interventionist. And just when you think you’ve figured out...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Jan 22, 2018 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life
It’s 2018, and social media is almost unavoidable. Facebook alone has over 1.94 billion monthly active users, as of March 2017, with five new profiles created each second. Now take into account that 76% of Facebook users are female.1 All of these statistics can...
by Cheryl Silinskas | Jan 11, 2018 | Life after the NICU
In a landfill somewhere there is a pale green Calvin Klein onesie. But I’ll get to that. Post-NICU, our 24-weeker was about nine months old, home with her dad and me. It was winter, and she had pneumonia. She was trached, on a ventilator with a three-foot...
