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Reflections, Ruminations & Resources from respected physician, educator, author and former NICU Parent. The NICU Parent Support Site Blog was created as a way to supply updates, provide information, send inspirational messages and feature NICU resources a
Recent Posts Tagged With 'coping with loss'
When to Seek More Help: How NICU Parents Can Recognize PTSD Symptoms
NICU Admissions are a stressful time and even a terrifying experience for all of those involved. Trying to figure out how to manage in a the strange NICU world can be overwhelming for many NICU Parents.Many parents are able to cope with the additiona...
NICU Parents Seem to Be Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
One of the things that stuck with both my husband and me after our NICU experience was the feeling that something else was going to happen, or to use the old expression, we kept "waiting for the other shoe to drop" or waiting for something else to de...
Encouraging Message: Picking Up the Pieces
Many NICU Parents experience broken dreams as part of the birth of their baby. Their initial dreams of a normal birth with a healthy child have been changed and NICU parents have to quickly adjust their reality to include having a child in the NICU.T...
Calvin's Hats - From One Angel to Another
A message tonight in my email box touched my heart and lead to the creation of a new lens on Squidoo. I had just recently updated the Bereavement Photography lens, so I have been writing about resources for parents coping with the death of a child.Th...
Spirit of Water - Love is in the NICU
I am honored that a blog post from a couple of years ago was featured in the February Newsletter from The Spirit of Water. You can read what was included in their newsletter below. The details are a bit muddled, but the sentiment is still real.Love i...
