By Featured Parent on April 6, 2023
by Suzanne Diehl Dear Baby Brave, I didn’t know you would come so early,You came in March instead of June.Our hearts filled with fear and joy hearing your first cry,We hoped you’d be home soon. I didn’t know how much I would love you.The instant that we met, a room full of applause.How proud I […]
By Amanda Tellmann on June 9, 2022
…But what if trusting your gut had failed you once before? As a mother to two daughters, shouldn’t I be a parenting expert by now, or nearing a certification of some sort? After all, the advice we received from experienced parents when we are expecting our first child, all the parenting books we read in […]
By Featured Parent on October 27, 2021
By: Cori Laemmle Dear Ezra Asher, We hope you had a wonderful birthday bouncing in the clouds. Thank you for letting yesterday be your brother’s day. Today is your day- your day to be remembered, thanked, and loved (although this happens every other day of the year as well). Oh sweet Ezra… What a strong […]
By Featured Parent on August 25, 2021
I would have stayed like that forever if it was possible.
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By Featured Parent on August 11, 2021
I thought that my pregnancy would be just like in the movies.
By Graham's Foundation on March 12, 2021
A premature baby can have serious health problems that require one parent to stop working and be the person in charge of the baby’s health care. During this stressful time the last thing new parents need is the financial strain that can come from losing an income. The Social Security Administration’s Supplemental Support Income program may be able to help ease that burden for parents.
By Nick Hall 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 Nick Hall 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 Nick Hall 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 Nick Hall on June 20, 2020
by Lindsay Nolan I was scrolling through Instagram at 3 a.m. while my husband, Danny slept on the couch next to me. My internal clock was off a bit; the NICU does that to you. It was about two weeks into our stay at the hospital and I was deciding on which filters to use […]