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Parents of Preemies Day
As parents of preemies, we long for days of normalcy. We hunger for moments of triumph and we shout from the rooftops when our children accomplish anything. We acknowledge the same milestones as any...
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Failure
Some of you may know that our family went through a disrupted adoption this fall. Some call it a failed placement, but I don’t like that term. I don’t think it failed. I think that a baby’s mother fell...
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My Hope
Dear Charlotte, It’s been awhile since I’ve written you. You are so busy these days. Therapy and School and princesses and dress up– there’s always something to do. You and your brother are the best of...
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Giving Our All
For a month I have written and deleted paragraphs and paragraphs of thoughts. I’ve lamented about the difficulty of premature birth, I’ve cried over the pain of pregnancy loss, I’ve laughed at the...
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On Normal Days
There are some nights, after we’ve signed the nurses out from their shifts, that I like to sit in the room with the kids. We live in a small two bedroom condo, so everyone is pretty cozy in our house....
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Dear Peter: Happy Father’s Day
Dear Peter, You are not around this Father’s Day, and you probably won’t be able to read this for another couple of weeks. But if you were here, I’d probably want to talk about all the crazy moments...
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Dear Charlotte: Your due date
Dear Charlotte- I’m not sure when it happened, but you have started to grow up. This week you found a box full of momentos from the NICU. In the box, you found the first hat you ever wore, and you held...
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Discharge Dates
There’s something that every NICU parent yearns for with all their might, mind, and strength: A discharge date. It looms in front of us, taunting us with it’s close proximity at times, and disappearing...
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The Graco Little Lounger™
This post was sponsored by Graco. The thoughts are all mine, though! Every now and then I get an invite to some sponsored event for blogging. Usually it doesn’t have much to do with me or my readers,...
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