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Keeping Your Marriage Alive When You Have A Hospitalized Preemie
Having a child in the is stressful, emotional, anxiety filled and just plain hard on any person!!!Now add being a Mom to another child at home, being married, working, running a household and grieving the loss of our son, my daughter’s twin. If this is not a recipe for a girl to loose it and a marriage to fall apart, I don’t know what is?!?!When I think back and ask myself …
5 Things Parents of Preemies and Micro-Preemies Should Know
My daughter, who will be four years old this July, was a micro-preemie, which means she weighed less than 1.4 lbs when she was born.When we were dumped into this journey of raising a preemie – and I say dumped because you usually have no time to prepare – we quickly realized how important it was to be familiar with hospital/NICU lingo. For the first day or two, until we started to understand the …
Preemie Story Part 2: Guinness, the NICU and my Sleeping Beauty
So, last we let off, I was waiting for an operating room so I could give birth to my baby girl at only 34 weeks (6 weeks early). I had spent a long night on various medications to try to get me out of labor, only then to have many other medications pumped into my body to prep for my c-section.
A Preemie Story: Part 1- Baptism by Fire
As I left abruptly for the hospital that afternoon, I couldnt explain how I knew, but I was certain that the next time I would be returning to my apartment, I would no longer be pregnant. In fact as I locked the door, I said to my mom, I guess we wont be able to get the kitchen redone before our little one is born. She thought I was crazy and assured me we were just going to the hospital as a precaution, all was well and it will get done. Technically, we were both right.
How Many Weeks Does a Pregnancy Last?
A typical pregnancy lasts 40 weeks. Pregnancy is counted from the first day of a mother’s last menstrual period, before an egg even implants in her uterus.