by Leigh Ann Torres | May 20, 2019 | Emotional Health
Oftentimes the emotional impact of a NICU stay can surface weeks, months or even years later after your baby is discharged. Emotions can quickly turn from joy and gratitude to anger and resentment and back again. It’s important for parents and caregivers of...
by Cheryl Silinskas | Mar 28, 2019 | Life after the NICU
I understand that doctors try to give families an honest warning in a prognosis, yet it only gives us one potential outcome. Parents share the discrepancies between prognosis and reality all the time. We learn later that prognosis will not give us the big picture of...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Mar 11, 2019 | Medical Info & Resources
According to the CDC, from January 1 to February 28, 2019, 206 individual measles cases have been confirmed in 11 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Texas and Washington.1 While many of these are...
by Guest Blogger | Mar 7, 2019 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU
by Karri Friedenberger When something traumatic happens to a person or a family you often hear about them adjusting to their “new normal.” One finds their new rhythm in life, adjusting their sails and moving forward. In February 2001 our twin girls, Hanna...
by Lindsay Rosenfeld | Mar 4, 2019 | Life after the NICU
As someone who has always been very connected to people – and who regularly connects others to people and resources – I found being a new parent of micro preemies very isolating: hospitalized bed rest, having twins, stopping full time work, spending the first three...