I have a friend whom I just found out was pregnant 2 weeks ago. Then, last week I heard that she was having twins, that she was on hospital bedrest and that she was only about 23 weeks pregnant. My heart started to pound as the implications of what this meant sunk in: she was [...]
Book Review: A Pound of Hope
November 23, 2010 By 3 Comments
“A Pound of Hope”, by Michele Munro Kemper and Jennifer Kemper Sinconis I seriously can’t express how fabulous this book is. I was afraid that, being a parent of a preemie, it would be difficult to read because of the memories and trauma it would dig up within me. I was wrong. It was fascinating. [...]
Prematurity Awareness Day
November 17, 2010 By 4 Comments
My first son was born at 21w2d gestation. He weighed 12 ounces and was 10 3/4 inches long. He looked perfect. He had eyelids, eyelashes, fingernails, toenails, beautiful translucent skin, and his heart was beating strong. Because of his extreme prematurity the doctors did nothing to save our baby, but put him in our arms [...]
Newsweek Article
November 11, 2010 By 4 Comments
My sister just gave me her copy of “Newsweek”, the November 1, 2010 edition, because it had an article about prematurity inside. “The Prematurity Puzzle”, by Jeneen Interlandi on page 42, professes the new discovery that the placenta is an actual organ. The idea presented is that the placenta may play a vital role in [...]
Amber’s Story
October 14, 2010 By 9 Comments
The following post is a personal story submitted by Amber, one of our Preemie Babies 101 readers. We found out in Feb 10 that we were pregnant with twins after having a miscarriage in Nov and having problems getting pregnant. We used Clomid. May 6 we went for our growth u/s. It was an hour [...]
Were you prepared?
September 7, 2010 By 27 Comments
So, I’m reading The Preemie Primer, by Jennifer Gunter, MD, and the book starts out with some general information about prematurity, descriptions of the causes of prematurity, and many statistics about rates of survival and other things. I’m not very far into it yet, but I was imagining parents of preemies picking the book up [...]
The Story of Jack Matthew
July 21, 2010 By 8 Comments
This story was shared by Lindsay, one of our readers. I am writing to share our story of our 24 week (15 ounces) miracle with you…JACK MATTHEW Now a little timeline of our whirlwind before I begin. Matt and I had our first date in april 2005, engaged 2 weeks later, married 1 year later, [...]
