November is Premature Birth Awareness month. I will always be passionate about premature birth awareness. It's also strangely fitting it's this month, since it was a November nine years ago that I found out I was pregnant with my twins. I actually didn't know it was twins at the time, or know what a scary, intense time was about to be our pregnancy journey. Looking back, I … [Read more...]
NICU Support: Cole’s Story
NICU Support The NICU is one of the toughest, most emotional experiences a person can have. Whether you have a partner or not, co-workers or friends, a nurse or a fellow preemie parent, you must have some type of NICU support to make it through. No matter how strong you are, or think you are, you can't do it alone. Some people are lucky enough to have a supportive partner … [Read more...]
World Prematurity Day 2016 – Spread Awareness
World Prematurity Day 2016 November 17 is World Prematurity Day 2016. It is a day to celebrate our smallest fighters, and spread awareness about what it means to experience a premature birth. Did you know that Prematurity is the #1 cause of death in children under the age of 5, according to the March of Dimes? That is a very scary statistic, and unfortunately, things … [Read more...]
Small, but Mighty, Nova Rinoa Elizabeth
Small, but Mighty Though she was very small for her gestational age, today's miracle fought very hard. Micro Preemies are defined by many different criteria in many different sources. Basically, it's a way to describe the smallest and earliest arriving babies. As I've mentioned before, a micro preemie (on this blog,) is a baby that is born before 28 weeks and/or under 2 … [Read more...]
Micro Preemie Monday with Quadruplets
Quadruplets Today, we meet micro preemie quadruplets for the first time. Having one baby in the hospital is very hard, so try to imagine having four fighting for their lives. Having to split your time seeing them, holding them, feeding them, and doing their cares are just some of the things a quadruplet parent has to do in the NICU. And that is the easy stuff. The … [Read more...]
