By Featured Parent on February 24, 2021
“As I reminisce about my premature baby, it definitely was a long road to get us to this place in our lives. Each day is still a new day.”
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on February 3, 2021
by Kristina Mulligan Flynn, you are my extraordinary. A shining star in all ways, even trapped inside four walls. We spend a lot of time at home nowadays. We have lots of fun most of the time, but I know you miss your “people” and our walks around Target. I do, too. There have been […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on January 21, 2021
by Ali Dunn There were 5 or 6 of us huddled on the sidewalk that circles the park. It was 50 degrees and sunny, and we had all decided to meet at the playground as this kind of weather in the middle of January is too good to let pass without some time outside. I […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on July 31, 2020
By Aanchal Singhal and Pallavi Singhal One or two, Who knew The desire for one, Accidently led to two. Not just sisters, or fraternal siblings, But the first set of identical twins recorded in our family history. Our parents anticipated for one, But instead received two. At 33 weeks we were ready to make our […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on July 24, 2020
by Autumn Schwertfeger Life is stillLife is more simple now and yet it feels more complicated than ever beforeThe world has changed, it’s evolved into this new realityAll because of COVID-19The virus took us all by surpriseIt turned the world upside downIt made all the soap, toilet paper, and masks disappearIt made the people disappear […]
By Nicole Bugna-Doyle on May 20, 2020
Written by MIA W. DORON, M.D. I believe whole-heartedly in the mission of Graham’s Foundation and am honored to be on the Executive Board. From my many years as a practicing neonatologist, and from sharing the pains and joys of my sister’s experience after delivering 27-week twins, I know that parents of preemies feel terrified, […]
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 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 […]
