by Hand to Hold Staff | Aug 18, 2016 | Medical Info & Resources, Mental Health, Professional Insight
The following post is the third installment of a three-part series on PPD and PTSD in NICU parents. Visit part 1, Postpartum Depression and PTSD in Fathers, and part 2, Postpartum Depression After a Complicated Delivery. A Traumatic Delivery It might surprise you to...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Aug 1, 2016 | News
PODCAST CAMPAIGN UPDATE! To date, nearly $7,000 has been raised, which means we are 35% closer to making our Audio Support Series (podcast) a reality. Thank you to those who have donated and/or shared our campaign! If you haven’t, there’s still time to get in on this...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Jul 14, 2016 | Mental Health
I was standing in line at Vons, my cart full of packaged “healthy” food for my week in the NICU, when the lady in front of me turned to the side. I felt my face get hot and tears began to fall as I saw her round, swollen belly. She smiled at me and I...
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,...
by Hand to Hold Staff | May 4, 2016 | Mental Health, NICU Life
I never expected to spend my first Mother’s Day in a children’s hospital. But in May 2015, that was where I celebrated it. A year earlier I discovered my pregnancy on Mother’s Day and carried that secret inside of me for two days before telling my husband. I spent...
