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Tips for Managing Cold, Flu, and RSV Season with a Preemie

Tips for Managing Cold, Flu, and RSV Season with a Preemie

By Nick Hall on October 11, 2018

Cold and flu season is here and for parents of preemies, this season can be hugely terrifying. Many refer to this time of year as a “lockdown” time when we do all we can to keep our preemie away from germs in order to keep them healthy.     We asked our preemie parent mentors […]

Categories: Bringing Preemie Home, Life After NICU
Tags: how to help preemie parents, micropreemies, tips for preemie parents
8 Things I Wish I Knew Before My High-Risk Pregnancy

8 Things I Wish I Knew Before My High-Risk Pregnancy

By Parijat Deshpande on August 16, 2017

Parijat serves as an advisor to the Graham’s Foundation Parent Mentor Program. You can read more about Parijat at the end of this post. I knew I would have a high-risk pregnancy when my first two pregnancy complications began in the first 2 months of my pregnancy. However, that still did not prepare me for […]

Categories: Expecting a Preemie, Parent Wellness
Tags: high-risk pregnancy, how to help preemie parents, tips for preemie parents
Seven Tips for Car Seat Safety With Your NICU Grad

Seven Tips for Car Seat Safety With Your NICU Grad

By Featured Parent on September 23, 2016

Today’s blog post is by Preemie Parent Mentor, Leah. This is not a sponsored post but is a post for Child Passenger Safety Awareness Week (September 18-24, 2016). When my son arrived at 31 weeks + 6 days, I felt completely unprepared. We had not finished researching or purchasing baby equipment. We had canceled our […]

Categories: Bringing Preemie Home
Tags: 31 weeks, car seat safety, how to help preemie parents, tips for preemie parents
Receiving a diagnosis in the NICU

Receiving a diagnosis in the NICU

By Laura Martin on May 15, 2016

When our twin boys were born at 24 weeks gestation, we knew we had a long road ahead of us. As each day passed, we learned more and more about the NICU and that our stay would be much more complicated than just watching our baby grow. While it is everyone’s hope that their child’s […]

Categories: Advocating for Preemies, Life in the NICU, Mothers of Preemies, Parenting Preemies, Preemie Parent Voices
Tags: 24 weeks, how to help preemie parents, micropreemies, survivor twin, tips for preemie parents
How to help preemie parents

How to help preemie parents

By Laura Martin on February 28, 2016

More often than not, families do not have time to plan for a premature birth. They find themselves going from a perfect birth plan to a frantic delivery. Families find themselves spending hours a day in the NICU with their child and many of the day to day events in life become difficult to keep […]

Categories: Life After NICU
Tags: how to help preemie parents
Holding my breath - part 2

Holding my breath – part 2

By Tracy P on February 19, 2016

Preemie parent mentor, Tracy, shares part two of her story. Be sure to read part one of her story. I want to tell micro-preemie parents who are going through the NICU experience currently, or those that will be in the future, that once you leave the NICU the healing begins. I am not going to […]

Categories: Life After NICU, Mothers of Preemies, Preemie Parent Voices
Tags: 24 weeks, how to help preemie parents, Stories Along the Preemie Journey, tips for preemie parents

Tips for facing doctors in the NICU

By Laura Martin on October 26, 2015

Facing doctors in the NICU can often be overwhelming and intimidating for parents. In the early days of a NICU journey, asking a question can be scary. We don’t want the NICU staff to think we are questioning their skills and knowledge but as parents, this is a brand new experience for us and one […]

Categories: Life in the NICU
Tags: how to help preemie parents, tips for preemie parents
Combating The Common Cold | How To Protect Your NICU Graduate This Winter

Combating The Common Cold | How To Protect Your NICU Graduate This Winter

By Featured Parent on October 6, 2015

Today’s guest post and photo are contributed by Heather Graham of momknowsjack.com.   With cold and flu season steadily approaching, most pediatricians would agree that isolation is the best prevention when it comes to your premature baby. The more you can limit your little miracle’s exposure to the general public; and coinciding germs, the better. […]

Categories: Life After NICU
Tags: 28 weeks, how to help preemie parents, tips for preemie parents
One day is too long

One day is too long

By Laura Martin on September 28, 2015

Mom 1: “So, how many days were you in the NICU? We were in for 45 long days!” Mom 2: “We were in for 58 days.” Mom 1 looks at me: “Well, how long were you in?” Me: “Umm. 228 days.” Silence. The other moms look stunned and walk away like they lost a competition. […]

Categories: Mothers of Preemies, Preemie Parent Voices
Tags: 24 weeks, how to help preemie parents, tips for preemie parents

The good, bad, and ugly of the Internet

By Laura Martin on August 31, 2015

The Internet is full of information. Some information is trustworthy and reliable and some is completely ridiculous. When faced with a new diagnosis or potential diagnosis, our first instinct is to turn to the Internet, type in the suspected diagnosis, and read the first item that pops onto the screen. More often than not, we […]

Categories: Life in the NICU
Tags: how to help preemie parents, tips for preemie parents
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