by Laura Martin | Sep 15, 2014 | NICU Life
I had never met a NICU nurse until the early hours on Halloween morning 2009. In all honesty, my first encounter with a NICU nurse wasn’t overwhelmingly positive. She was giving me the grim statistics of what living with 24 week twin boys could be like – if they even...
by Kaleena Berryman | Sep 5, 2014 | NICU Life
A week after giving birth to my son Jharid 16 weeks early, I decided to take a short break from staring at him through the incubator in the NICU. It was incredibly hard leaving my one pound five ounce baby with just the nurses to watch over him, but it had to be done....
by Guest Blogger | Jul 25, 2014 | Family Stories
My Story With the Christmas season coming around, it was a time of great joy and excitement. I’m a sailor with a baby girl on the way that just moved from a Naval Base in San Diego to a new area on orders and was expected to go to my new command’s...
by Heather Hucks | Jun 13, 2014 | NICU Life
We rounded the corner after scrubbing in for the obligatory 3 minutes. As we neared the fourth pod, I saw that the neonatologist was sitting on a stool right beside Tucker’s isolette. We were only 4 days new to the NICU experience, but I knew enough to know that...
by Laura Martin | May 19, 2014 | Family Stories, Life after the NICU
When Scott and I decided to have children, we knew there was a very good chance our children would have a hearing loss. Scott has a hearing loss called Otosclerosis (a hardening of the bones in the middle ear) that runs in his family. Usually, this hearing loss does...