by Leigh Ann Torres | Jan 16, 2017 | Emotional Health, Life after the NICU, NICU Life
As a supportive network of NICU parents, we do our best not to compare experiences, but to recognize that everyone’s experience is different, and everyone’s feelings about that experience are completely valid. It seems no matter how long the NICU stay,...
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 | Apr 18, 2016 | Life after the NICU
My 8-year-old twin girls graduated from occupational therapy last week. Our journey in therapy has not been a long one. For years I counted us among the lucky ones: 31-weekers who, through babyhood and toddlerhood, showed no immediate signs of needing assistance. They...
by Hand to Hold Staff | Mar 21, 2016 | NICU Life
Reflecting back on my time in the NICU I got to thinking, what can I tell you, after almost 6 years since my twins were discharged from hospital? What else do I have to say about managing multiples in the NICU? Through my work with families of multiples and...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Mar 16, 2016 | Emotional Health, NICU Life
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” — e.e. cummings “Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.” — Lord Byron “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion” — Truvy (Steel Magnolias) Any...
