by Hand to Hold Staff | Sep 26, 2016 | NICU Life
When I think of motherhood, I think of it being a beautiful, yet scary adventure. For many women it’s a club that everyone wants to join, by any means necessary. Becoming a preemie mom was a club I got initiated in without signing up. During my first pregnancy,...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Sep 15, 2016 | Life after the NICU
This is Jeannie. I met Jeannie in the NICU when she was assigned to my identical twin girls one Saturday afternoon. Still early enough in our NICU stay, we had bounced around from nurse to nurse, a new face each day, a new name to try not to forget, and a new...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Aug 29, 2016 | Family Stories, NICU Life
Each spring, select cities throughout the U.S. and Canada host the annual storytelling show, Listen to Your Mother. Listen to Your Mother is a national series of locally-produced shows in which local writers, authors, storytellers, bloggers, and more take the stage to...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Aug 25, 2016 | NICU Life
The following is a guest post from a member of our Hand to Hold – NICU Family Voices community. If you have an essay, an experience, or tips you would like to share with our readers, please email...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Jul 11, 2016 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life
Preemies are not small full-term babies, and parenting a preemie is its own unique roller coaster of joys and challenges separate from the standard newborn experience. Here are 9 ways the experience of parenting preemies is unique. Having a preemie begins a journey,...
