Today’s post comes from our preemie parent mentor Jennifer. To connect with her or with another one of our mentors, click here. After enjoying the 10th birthday of my beautiful niece Kristal, I started to feel some discomfort. I was in the bathroom every 5 minutes. At about 3 am I starting to feel some […]
Today’s post comes from preemie parent Ashlee, who shared her experiences in honor of World Prematurity Day. To connect with one of our mentors like Ashlee did, click here. First, I’d like to give a little backstory to how I became a micropreemie mom. On September 13, 2017, I woke up with my pants soaking […]
Today’s post comes from preemie mom Valerie Frost. Valerie is a mother, scholar, and lifelong learning enthusiast. A Garden State native, she is a former Kindergarten teacher now tackling Stay-at-Home Mom life with single parenting of boy/girl premature twins. She recently completed her M.Ed. and has a passion for creativity, health, and personal well-being. Six […]
Today’s post comes from Alaina, a preemie mom of two and an educator. We are so grateful to her for sharing her story. As babies, my siblings and I were each assigned a different lullaby by our mother. She would sing our special song to lull us to sleep at night, and to wake us […]
Today we’re sharing some of Jaime’s story! She’s one of our Preemie Parent Mentors – specifically in the area of breast feeding and pumping support – and she agreed to answer some questions about her experiences feeding her two preemies. Tell us a bit about your birth experience. Did you know you might give birth […]
Today we’re honored to be able to share Ashley’s story of becoming a mother and then having to say goodbye to her son far too soon. Today, Ashley is one of our parent mentors – specifically in the area of grief – and we are so grateful to her for her service and for sharing […]
Simon is one of our Preemie Parent Mentors – specifically our mentor for preemie dads – and here he shares his experiences along with a father’s point of view. When my twins (2 fraternal twin girls, now 19 months and healthy) were born at 29 weeks, I quickly shifted my gaze from the SWAT team […]
Tracy is our parent mentor who specializes in helping parents of preemies coping with feeding difficulties. If you need someone to talk to about your preemie’s feeding challenges, you can connect with her here. “What screws us up most in life is the picture in our heads of how it is supposed to be.” – […]
Today’s share post about comes from our Preemie Parent Mentor, Amy. You can connect with Amy here for micro-preemie parent support – she’s here to act as a listening ear or to help you through a challenging period in your micropreemie’s life. I am a member of a world that I didn’t even know existed. I […]
The micropreemie journey can be like walking through a minefield for both preemies and their families. The moms and dads of the earliest babies celebrate not only the milestones, but also the minutes. Every hour in the early days is hard won. Every milestone met, a triumph. A micro-preemie parent’s courage and resilience may be […]
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