Written by Kristina Araque Please tell us a little about your NICU/Special care story? On a Thursday morning in September at 33 weeks & 2 days my water broke. No warning, no known reason, but this baby girl was telling me she wanted out. Fear, panic, “it’s too early!” Just under 24 hours later out […]
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Written by Mari Stonebraker Please tell us a little about your NICU/Special care story? We have two NICU/special care stories. In 2019 our son was born after a long initial stage of labor (27 hours after my water had broken) followed by a rapid period in the birth canal. When he was born, our son was […]
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Written by Rachel Ritchie and Rob Ritchie (in italics) Our NICU Story I went into labor at 39 weeks after a healthy and uneventful pregnancy. After laboring at home for three sleepless days and nights, including one “false start” visit to the hospital at 2am, my doctor finally admitted me to the hospital for elevated […]
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Written by Alexandra Rubin Our NICU experience by the numbers 28. Wednesday, August 5, 2020, according to my pregnancy app, marked 28 weeks pregnant. One trimester to go until we met baby boy. The morning was uneventful. Since the pandemic started in March, I had developed a routine of working mostly from my dining room […]
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Written by Amanda and Steve Owens Our NICU story At 20 weeks we realized our journey to parenthood was going to look even more different than we had already planned for due to the global pandemic. During a routine ultrasound, the tech noted that our baby was very small. The doctor outlined the list of […]
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Written by Dana Solomon Our NICU experience Our NICU story started on the morning of Tuesday, Sept 1 at a routine ultrasound – I was 34 weeks and 5 days. They told me the baby was measuring small and it looked like my placenta was that of a 39/40 weeker so the baby wasn’t getting all […]
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BY SARAH BOUVIER NICU Story Our son Henry was born at 35 weeks. There were no prior indications or health reasons that led to him being born early… he was just ready to enter the world! The NICU team was in the room as I was giving birth and then post-birth we were informed that […]
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WRITTEN BY KAELYN ZAKEM NICU Story My NICU story began on a Friday in May 2020. I began to think that I might be leaking fluid but wasn’t sure so I called the doctor’s office and they had me come in. The doctor on call assured me that all was well and to let her […]
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WRITTEN BY KALI JOSEPH NICU Story In order to tell our NICU story, I should start with my labor & delivery story which coincidentally happened to be on Labor Day 2019. When I woke up with the sun that morning experiencing contractions two and a half weeks before my due date, I thought “Wow this […]
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WRITTEN BY ABIGAIL NAIRNE Our NICU Story I had my second baby, my son Teddy, by emergency c-section on 15th January 2020. I was 38 weeks pregnant, exactly the same gestation as when I had my daughter by emergency c-section. In both pregnancies I had a condition called ICP. This condition puts baby at high […]
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