By Featured Parent on September 26, 2023
The funny thing about NICU Awareness Month is I didn’t know it existed until after our time in the NICU was almost complete.
By Featured Parent on September 22, 2023
by Samantha Rice We’ll get a puppy and travel. That was our plan after two surgeries for endometriosis and as our 5 year anniversary approached. Little did we know that our best surprise and biggest adventure was right around the corner. Other than an early subchorionic hemorrhage, my pregnancy felt amazing, like a dream come […]
By Featured Parent on June 7, 2023
“When I tell friends and family this story, they usually comment on how grounded and determined I seemed during this time. It was all a blur at the time, but telling this story is helping me to process what it all meant.”
By Featured Parent on June 2, 2023
I remember it only in a blur—all of the sudden I had an IV inserted, an oxygen mask placed over my mouth, and I saw my shell-shocked husband sitting in a corner of the room, freaking out and neglected by the nurses as they prepped me for an emergency C-section.
By Featured Parent on May 26, 2023
by Rachel Kaufman It was early on a Friday morning and the baby wasn’t kicking like he usually did when I was resting. Normally, the calmer I was, the more kicks he got in (feisty little guy). The kicks were usually to the groin area since he was in breech position (a very weird feeling!). […]
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Mothers of Preemies,
Parent Wellness,
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Stories Along the Preemie Journey
By Featured Parent on April 6, 2023
by Suzanne Diehl Dear Baby Brave, I didn’t know you would come so early,You came in March instead of June.Our hearts filled with fear and joy hearing your first cry,We hoped you’d be home soon. I didn’t know how much I would love you.The instant that we met, a room full of applause.How proud I […]
By Featured Parent on March 31, 2023
Today is an ending. An ending to one of the most intense chapters of our lives. I’ve sat in this room for 72 days, waiting for THIS day to come. This room has held some of the biggest pains of my life, and also some of the biggest miracles.
By Featured Parent on November 22, 2022
“Premature birth can happen to anyone, at any time in their life. It can happen to you, your child, your grandchild, your best friend; it does not discriminate in who it chooses or why.”
By Featured Parent on November 3, 2022
“I’m not sure you ever really heal from the NICU experience but doing what you can to prepare yourself mentally to be the best mother you can be when your baby does come home is so important.”
By Featured Parent on October 18, 2022
“She asked me a question that I had not been asked before: Define what a loss mom is.”
