By Featured Parent on June 18, 2021
“There are so many times that I know that I am trying my absolute best, but the truth is that I don’t feel like I’m a good mother. “
Categories:
Early Intervention,
Life After NICU,
Mothers of Preemies,
Parenting Preemies,
Preemie Issues,
Preemie Parent Voices
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#micropreemie,
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#preemieloss
By Featured Parent on May 13, 2021
by Kristina Mulligan May 13th. To me it’s known as “the day that never was.” After a grueling battle with infertility, I finally received the news I was pregnant. We would finally make the leap from two to three. I was ecstatic, my husband was over the moon, and our loved ones were equally full […]
Categories:
Life After NICU,
Mothers of Preemies,
Parent Wellness,
Preemie Parent Voices
Tags:
Adjusted Age,
micropreemies,
NICU,
preemie,
preemie milestones,
Preemie Parent Support,
preemie parent wellness,
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By Featured Parent on February 10, 2021
by Ashlee Colley Before we were thrown into the whirlwind of becoming preemie parents and the NICU life, if I was asked what a feeding tube was, I would have had no idea even what the purpose was or why a person might need to be tube fed. Fast forward over 3 years later, and […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on January 21, 2021
by Ali Dunn There were 5 or 6 of us huddled on the sidewalk that circles the park. It was 50 degrees and sunny, and we had all decided to meet at the playground as this kind of weather in the middle of January is too good to let pass without some time outside. I […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 21, 2020
by Kristina Mulligan This world is in scary times as we deal with a global pandemic. COVID-19 is causing fear in many and panic in others. In some way, however, we all feel the anxiety – and possibly the soreness of dry hands. Social distancing and isolation has become the way of life for many, and […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on December 23, 2019
by Sandra Hunt I had a friend that didn’t want to see pictures of my baby in the NICU, hooked up to wires and tubes. It was too “graphic”, she said. My baby spent 45 days in the NICU. If you don’t want to see these pictures or hear this story, you’re not interested in […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on December 19, 2019
by Jennifer Schwertfeger 15 years ago, my life changed after giving birth to my daughter Grace, at only 24 weeks. I had a high-risk pregnancy, that lead to an early preterm birth, I never imagined that grace would be born 16 weeks prematurely, I wasn’t prepared for any of the challenges that would lie ahead. […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on December 13, 2019
by Alyssa Voight Here is the letter I gave to all of the wonderful women I hung out with for the past 44 days… Dear all of our NICU nurses, For many, bringing a new baby home feels like the beginning of a new story in their lives. For us, while bringing Luca home might […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on November 11, 2019
“During a NICU experience, one resource could make all of the different for support, especially for military families.”
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on September 27, 2019
by Ali Dunn From the moment my twins were born at 28 weeks and admitted to the NICU, my first thought in the morning and my last thought at night was when will they come home. I just wanted it all to be over. After struggling for 3.5 years with infertility, I was tired of […]
