by Kristina Mulligan mom•guilt /mahm-gilt/ (noun): the unhappy feelings caused by thinking or feeling like you did something wrong, like missing your child blink, not having time to make teacher gifts, or forgetting that they don’t like scrambled eggs this week. I’ll never forget the first time that I felt the unwavering, knock-the-air-out-of-my-lungs, stinging pain of mom […]
I remember my first Mother’s Day like it was yesterday. It wasn’t exactly as I had pictured my first Mother’s Day to be. No one ever envisions their first Mother’s Day being spent in the NICU. We had been in the NICU for many, many, many months at this point. We were still grieving the […]
Mother’s Day wasn’t that long ago. When my husband asked me what I wanted for Mother’s Day, I honestly didn’t need anything but I knew that there was something else I wanted to do. So I told him as his gift to me I wanted to put together baskets for the mothers in the NICU […]
Last Mother’s Day, I woke up sweating in a hospital bed after a night of magnesium sulfate and trying to ward off premature labor for a little longer. My water had broken at 28 weeks and I’d spent two weeks going in and out of labor. A nurse had just taken my vitals, pronounced me […]
Mother’s Day can be an emotional holiday for preemie moms because premature birth brings with it so many unique challenges that motherhood itself may feel like a roller coaster ride. There are the preemie moms who will be spending Mother’s Day in the NICU – more likely than not thinking about how this wasn’t the […]
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