by Hand to Hold Staff | Mar 30, 2017 | NICU Life, Siblings
Sibling love is a tough journey for any family and even harder when you have a baby in the NICU. Learning to manage your own emotions, as well as the guilt and stress that comes with having a medically fragile child, can come at a large cost. When you add siblings...
by Jessica Thomas | Dec 3, 2014 | NICU Life, Siblings
I woke up that morning and felt “funny.” I couldn’t really put my finger on what was wrong. At only 27 weeks pregnant, I refused to let my mind believe that the back pain I was having was actually contractions. Curling up on the couch didn’t help, chugging glasses of...
by Kasey Mathews | Aug 14, 2013 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, NICU Life, Siblings
It may seem strange, on a website about premature birth, that I’m writing a blog post about a baby born on his due date, weighing an even eight pounds. But that’s exactly the case with my son, Tucker. His sister? Not so much. She arrived traumatically...
