Our NICU experience came with a lot of “Boy, I wish I had known that earlier…” moments. Music therapy falls into that category! We were told about our hospital’s music therapy program a few months after our daughter was born. The therapy team was a group of musicians who traveled around the hospital, playing music [...]
I found it! I searched and searched for the original call that I referred to in my Preemies & Social Security article a couple weeks ago, because a number of you requested it, and thanks to the help of the Dave Ramsey radio team I was able to get an audio of the complete call. [...]
November 17, 2010. A day that bloggers across the interwebs and internet are joining together to get the word out about premature babies. A day to honor or memorialize that special little one who has had a larger fight than most. If you are a blogger and host your own blog, please join us on [...]
One of the best things we did for ourselves during our stay at the NICU was make friends. I recall the first time my husband said hello and started chatting with the woman next to us. At first I was thinking he shouldn’t bother her, but then she chatted back and told us how she [...]
I was just wondering how many of our preemie babies have actually gotten RSV, either in the NICU (can they get it in the NICU?) or during their first few years of life at home. Some questions I’m curious about are: 1. If your preemie got RSV did you have him under strict quarantine or [...]
This week we headed back to the hospital to have a follow up surgery for Drake. We have known since he was born that he would need a Hypospadias repair, but it wasn’t going to be scheduled until he was at least 8 or 9 months old and that seemed so far away. Well time [...]
