After a successful breastfeeding journey with my daughter for nine months, exclusively pumping because my second child was in the CVICU was a huge adjustment. Maybe you have found out that you will be pumping because your child is in the NICU – don’t fret! It’s a lot of work, but it is a very […]
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It can be hard to know what to bring to the NICU even if you know ahead of time that you will be having a NICU stay. We knew well before delivery that our son had a CHD diagnosis called HLHS that would require an extensive CVICU stay for his open heart surgery. This isn’t
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When our baby was diagnosed with HLHS at our 20-week anatomy scan, the next question was, “What now?”. I had no idea what the rest of my pregnancy would look like with a CHD diagnosis. No doubt there was a wide range of emotions that I had to learn how to deal with as I
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Maybe a NICU stay was a surprise, or maybe you had time to process that you would be in the NICU, but either way, you might be asking yourself, “What do I need for my baby in the NICU?”. It’s a great question because it seems like it might be pretty pointless to bring much
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My second birth story holds a very special place in my heart. It’s a two-day journey that I will never forget. It was drastically different than my first birth story. It showed me what I was capable of, and it led us to the day we finally met our heart warrior. The Backstory If this
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You never expect anything bad to happen to you or your children. You hear of terrible things happening to other people and think something like that will never happen to you – until it does. When we received our son’s CHD diagnosis I realized we were stepping into one of those stories. That terrible thing
