by Hand to Hold Staff | Jan 11, 2017 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life
Cues are How Your Baby Communicates Cues are the signals your baby uses to show what they are feeling and how they are coping with the world around them. Babies can show this both through their behavior and through changes in their physiological state. Your Baby’s...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Dec 26, 2016 | NICU Life
Our friends and family definitely have questions about our preemies, their birth and their health. I’ve created a little list of some of the most frequently asked questions we got when our son was born at 26 weeks. So the next time you get bombarded with a bunch...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Dec 19, 2016 | NICU Life
A similar version of this post was originally published in July 2012. One of your friends just landed themselves in the NICU. Let me guess. You want to help, but you have no idea what to say or what to do. Fear not, many of us who have been there have these...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Dec 15, 2016 | Mental Health, NICU Life
I won’t lie, being a NICU parent was hard. I cried a lot. It was also surprisingly rewarding. The longer your baby is in the hospital, the harder it gets. My son, Theo, a 27-weeker, spent over 200 days in the hospital, 120 of them in the NICU. Even though he...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Dec 12, 2016 | Mental Health, NICU Life
I will never be able to adequately express my thanks for the outpouring of support that flooded over my family in the weeks before and after my son’s birth. I had a five year old at home, and was in the hospital for two weeks before my urgent c-section, and heading...
