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Organizing Your Preemie’s Medicine
When it comes to being a preemie parent, one thing you have to be is organized. Now, I am generally an organized person. I may not be the neatest person but I can tell you where anything is in my...
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Celebrating Every Preemie Milestone
When my first child rolled over for the first time, her daddy and I cheered. We applauded her when she sat and later when she crawled. We laughed when she said her first word, “duck”, and laughed...
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{Professional Insight} When Your Preemie is Struggling to Eat
Most people view eating as a simple task that occurs automatically. Unfortunately, for many premature babies, the trauma of their birth and medical procedures during infancy can lead to severe feeding...
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You ARE Ready to Bring Your Baby Home!
Jaxon is ready to come home! May will always be a special month for me. For most, May brings with it the end of the school year, vacation planning, and other events that mark summer’s arrival. For...
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Traveling with a Special Needs Child
A family Thanksgiving trip to the mountains Traveling with children is stressful. Traveling with children with special needs is even more stressful. Traveling with children with special needs during...
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Your Preemie Has Feeding Issues? You Are Not Alone!
One of my happiest moments during my daughter’s five-month NICU stay was one morning when I called her primary nurse, and she told me Daphne had drunk an entire bottle of expressed breast milk. A...
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The Challenges of Good Nutrition
Thanksgiving celebration at school It was Thanksgiving lunch at Joseph’s school. Parents and grandparents had joined their children in the school cafeteria for a special Thanksgiving celebration....
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The Sky is the Limit: Breastfeeding a Vent-Dependent NICU baby
While on three-day hospital bed rest with PPROM, I researched what was required to create a breast milk supply under these circumstances: our son was going to be an extremely low birth weight,...
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Advice from a Former TEF Preemie, Now a Preemie Dad
My husband was a preemie and a special needs child. I guess I’d always known that, though I’d never applied “special needs” to anything to do with him. After the birth of our third child, however, I...
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Making G-Tube Feeding Friendlier + Tubesie Giveaway
Before my son was born I knew nothing about feeding tubes. I naively thought they were for elderly and severely brain injured patients. Never in a million years could I have imagined sending my...
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