By Nick Hall 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 […]
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By Nick Hall on March 17, 2021
by Kristina Mulligan Motherhood has shaped me. It sounds cliché, I know, but beyond my wildest understanding, my desire to be a mother has paved my path in life. When I was a kid, as far back as I can remember, I wanted to be “mommy” when I grew up. I always had a pillow […]
By Nick Hall on May 9, 2019
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 […]
By Andrea Silva on June 3, 2013
One of our newest Preemie Parent Mentors, Andrea, connected with Graham’s Foundation when she ran her 8th marathon while raising money and awareness for the Foundation in 2011. She is proud momma to her micro-preemie daughter Eliahna (seen below), who was born in April of 2010 at 23 weeks and 5 days and weighed just […]