My Exclusively Pumping for Twins Journey

Last week we had our first NICU reunion tea to attend with the boys! Our hospital holds this lunch every year for current and previous NICU families. It’s a way...

We’ve been home for the same amount of time the boys spent in the NICU now (5 months), so it’s about time I finally got around to writing out Axel’s...

I don’t want to see green towels again. That’s just one way the NICU life has changed me. I didn’t realize how much until my (brief) hospital stay with Axel...

We were lucky enough to not spend Christmas in the NICU (just all summer!), so I don’t have first-hand experience with actual Christmas time in the NICU. I can imagine...

Being a first time mom in the NICU is scary AF. It’s not how I imagined my entrance into motherhood going, as I’m sure no one who finds themselves in...

Axel is finally home!! He spent a total of 147 days in the NICU and is now home with his brother Jaxon, who spent 135 days in NICU. It is...

Jaxon is home! My big “little” twin (younger by one minute), the recipient in Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome and the larger but sicker twin when born… is home! It’s...

A few days after Axel and Jaxon were born at 27 weeks 2 days, we were told they each had brain bleeds. This is also known as an intraventricular hemorrhage....

For some almost-term (or term) babies, feeding is all they really need to learn in the NICU. These babies are called “feeders and growers” and are usually only in the...

Being a NICU mom means living in an anxious state of mind all the time. Sometimes without even realizing it. I drive to the hospital with Waze on. Not because...

I could have titled this post “A Walk to Remember.” Aaahaha see what I did there. Cheeseball alert. But seriously. After over 100 days in the NICU, it starts to...