by Melanie Turner | Jun 26, 2015 | Life after the NICU, NICU Life, Siblings
The sun is out. The weather is warmer. It’s finally summer! If you are anything like me, you worked really hard to keep your preemie home and safe from RSV and the flu all winter long. It’s time to reward yourself and your little one with some fun in the...
by Alden Gilligan | Jun 24, 2015 | Life after the NICU, Medical Info & Resources
My first “kids” were our dogs. Chloe and Stella, one brown mutt, one black mutt. They weren’t (aren’t) the best behaved furballs and they shed uncontrollably, have a nasty habit of barking every time they hear anything (and I do mean anything) outside, and they snore...
by Leigh Ann Torres | Jun 8, 2015 | Family Stories, Life after the NICU, NICU Life
We’d like to introduce Preemie Babies 101’s new Online Community Coordinator, Leigh Ann Torres. Leigh Ann is a blogger, writer, and mother of twins plus one, living in Austin, TX. After a short bout with severe preeclampsia, Leigh Ann’s identical...
by Amy Carr | Nov 10, 2014 | Family Stories
In July 2011 we were over the moon excited to learn we were expecting twins! But six months later, I began to have complications with my pregnancy. I didn’t feel right. In January 2012, at 22 weeks, our baby girl’s water sack broke and her cord prolapsed. Luckily,...
by Kelli Kelley | Sep 29, 2014 | News
As a mother of four healthy, full-term girls ages 2 – 7, Sophie Carney, along with her husband and family, entered a whole new world during her fifth pregnancy. Pregnant with identical twin girls, Carney received serious news in her second trimester. A rare condition...
