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Preparing for Flu Season

Supposedly it’s supposed to be a bad flu season this year – especially for the swine flu.  If you’ve watched the news over the past few months you’ve probably heard that children with weak immune systems are especially at risk with swine flu and most deaths occur because of already weakened immune systems or other [...]

My Preemie Toddler is Socially Behind

Okay, as will be the case for many preemies, they will be quarantined for a number of months every winter during RSV Season.   For my little girl, RSV Season lasted for 8 months of the year and we kept her quarantined completely for the first two seasons and partially for the third one. The [...]

My Preemie’s Eating Difficulties

My preemie is almost three and she still chokes on certain table foods.  When she was just starting to eat table food she definitely took a while to get used to new textures, and especially to be able to chew and swallow things without choking.  I mashed up her foods or cut them into tiny [...]

My Preemie Toddler with Asthma

My preemie tends to develop a cough with almost every sickness that she gets and it lingers for weeks or even months.  After my preemie got croup for the third time in 2 months her pediatrician suggested that she might have asthma and we started to treat her with an inhaler. It takes a little [...]

Pneumonia in July

As a new preemie parent I was told that most preemies catch up to other children around the age of two, and that they might need to be quarantined during RSV Season for those first two years.  So, when my girl turned two I naively thought that our troubles were over.  Not so! Not only [...]

My Preemie Toddler Has Croup…..Again

Okay, so I’m starting to wonder if it’s a preemie thing to get croup this often or if my preemie gets the croup so often because she was so early (27 weeks), and because she had chronic lung disease for so long.  Since one week before this past Christmas my preemie toddler has been sick [...]

What is RSV and When is RSV Season?

There’s a lot of talk about RSV during the winter months and a lot of people aren’t quite sure what it really is or how bad it can be.  The following is a medical definition for starters. RSV stands for Respiratory Syncytial Virus and it is a viral disease of the lungs.  It is the [...]