Category_Medical Motherhood Helping Axel’s NICU Feeding Issues: G-Tube or NG? This is a long update about Axel’s current situation. We are so frustrated and it seems like we keep going backwards. Previous to now, he was happily (ok not always...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life Jaxon is Home! (135 Days in the NICU) 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...
Brain Bleeds Post-IVH Hydrocephalus and VP Shunt Surgeries: Jaxon’s Story 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....
Category_Medical Motherhood An Introduction to Mom Guilt in the NICU Being a mom is hard work. You hear that sentence everywhere from everyone, and it’s true. Being a NICU mom, and a twin mom, has added levels of difficulty, but...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life The Last Step in the NICU: Conquering Feeding 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...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life The Anxious Mind of a NICU Mom 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...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life Normalcy in the NICU (Our First Walk!) 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...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life That Moment When All the Tubes Start to Feel Normal I went to the post office today. For the stupidest reason. Because of our hectic hospital schedule, I Amazon Primed a pack of toilet paper. Listen, the only reason someone...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life CP, ROP, G Tubes and More (Oh My!) - NICU Progress Update Today is 100 days in the NICU for the boys and they are now 41w 5d gestational age. Where has the time gone? Soon I’ll have to go back and...
Birth Story Today Is Your Due Date Today is your due date. You’ve been here for so long already. 3 months premature almost to the day (April 26). I was so naive back then. I knew the...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life What It Feels Like to Be an Invisible Mother For 2 entire months, I didn’t go anywhere except the hospital to visit the boys in the NICU and home… with a stop at a gas station or two along...
Category_Medical Motherhood>NICU Mom Life Two Months in the NICU in Photos ❤️ The past 8 weeks in the NICU with our 27 weeker TTTS survivor twins has both been the longest 2 months of my life and also the shortest. I have...