Every morning I wake up thinking about when I will hold you, and every night I fall asleep thinking about when I will hold you. I spend as much of my day as I can holding you, but it never seems to make up for the time I have to spend away from you. I…
In all of my wildest worries about pregnancy and childbirth, prematurity never occurred to me. But, after my daughter was born three months early and just a pound and a half, I was faced with a micropreemie, a months long NICU stay, thousands of miles of driving, hundreds of hours of pumping, and the scariest…
“the ‘rollercoaster of the NICU’ finally made sense to me.” It’s difficult to put into words something that has been so foundational to my journey as not only a mother, but a mother of a premature baby. When my son was born at 31 weeks, my husband and I had a pretty positive outlook at…