By Featured Parent on January 7, 2022
Personally, I also feel judged since my birth story did not go as planned.
By Featured Parent on August 25, 2021
I would have stayed like that forever if it was possible.
Categories:
Bringing Preemie Home,
Life After NICU,
Mothers of Preemies,
Preemie Loss & Remembrance,
Preemie Multiples,
Preemie Parent Voices,
Supporting Preemie Parents
Tags:
#preemie #nicu,
#preemieloss,
#preemietwins,
#pregnancyandinfantlossawareness,
Preemie Parent Support
By Nick Hall on May 26, 2021
“…if I’ve learned anything over the last two years is that no matter how you become a parent the journey has its unexpected moments, some fun and some scary. Here is a little bit about how we came to celebrate such a wonderful day!”
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 […]
Categories:
Life After NICU,
Mothers of Preemies,
Parent Wellness,
Preemie Parent Voices
Tags:
Adjusted Age,
micropreemies,
NICU,
preemie,
preemie milestones,
Preemie Parent Support,
preemie parent wellness,
preemie parents
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 March 10, 2021
by Debra Cassell My journey to pregnancy was a long and stressful path. I suffered multiple early miscarriages beginning at age 32. We went through all the evasive and painful fertility treatments available. After finally getting pregnant through IVF, I suddenly experienced HELLP Syndrome and was forced to have an emergency C-section at 26 weeks. He weighed 1 […]
Categories:
Mothers of Preemies,
Parent Wellness,
Parenting Preemies,
Preemie Issues,
Preemie Loss & Remembrance,
Preemie Multiples,
Preemie Parent Voices
Tags:
books about preemies,
NICU,
preemie loss,
Preemie Parent Support,
Preemie support
By Nick Hall 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 Nick Hall 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 […]
Categories:
COVID, RSV & Preemies,
Preemie Parent Voices,
Social Distancing with a Preemie,
Supporting Preemie Parents
Tags:
#covid19,
#Grahamsfoundation,
micropreemies,
NICU,
nicu nurses,
preemie,
Preemie Parent Support
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 Nick Hall on April 24, 2019
Part 2 in a 3 part series Written by Calista Wilson Our NICU Days After delivering Corbin 10 weeks early I was sent up to my room with no baby. It wasn’t the delivery I always imagined. There was no magical bond holding my baby in my arms, instead I bonded right away with my […]
