By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on November 17, 2020
By Krystal Workman, Inventor of the TwinGo Carrier Congratulations! Graduation day is just around the corner and leaving the NICU is truly a cause for celebration. For the parents of twins out there, I’d like to share these five things I learned to help you prepare for life after the NICU with twins. Twins aren’t always […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on October 6, 2020
“You realize that you don’t have the choice to protect your child the way a “typical” parent would. The protection of my daughter was in the hand of trusted medical professionals…”
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 17, 2020
by Nicole Lauer My Dearest Kade, It’s been two years since we said hello and since we had to say goodbye. 99 minutes with you was not enough time, but I thank God every day that I was given that time with you. We miss you every single day. You would be getting so big, […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 9, 2020
By Ali Dunn I “attended” a virtual happy hour the other day. It was nice to see people’s faces and have conversations with friends even if they were mostly about isolation and COVID-19. We were all sharing stories from our days, tales of working from home, schooling from home, and trying to create some semblance […]
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By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on April 7, 2020
by Dr. Stephen D DeMo, DO MEd I hope everyone is staying safe and healthy during this difficult time. From a Neonatologist’s perspective, these last few weeks have felt surreal. On the one hand, we have taken some solace in the fact that it appears that infants and children are not severely affected by COVID-19. […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on January 16, 2020
by Ali Dunn When my twins were born at 28 weeks, I was unprepared to deal with life in the NICU. I had never seen a premature baby. I had never toured a NICU. I didn’t know how much trauma a NICU experience could create. As I was wheeled down the hall to the NICU […]
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 April 26, 2019
Written by Calista Wilson Part 3 in a 3 part series After we spent a month in NICU we were headed home! We were lucky to be going home without any monitors. Even so we were terrified of our hour and a half drive home. We even had to stop at our doctor office and […]