Tag: NICU

Here we are Day 3, already doing better than I thought I was going to do! The meaning behind my Blog name is very Simple, I started blogging right after my son was born 16 weeks early. The nurse in the NICU said welcome to the Preemie family. That stuck with me, we were in […]

  Welcome to the new and wonderful world of… well Me, and my family I guess. I have done a little revamping of the place, made it less bright pink and purple and more grey white and black because those are my colours and pink and purple made me want to rip my eyes out…. […]

There has been many articles recently about mental health for parents and family members that have experienced NICU life, and all the bumps, drop, loop de loops that roller coaster has in store for everyone incolved. I would like to share my battle with PTSD post NICU, 3 and half years later. My son was […]

I grew up in a house hold that always had music buzzing around. There was either someone playing a record ( you know those big black disk things around since the stone age?), someone (attempting to) play and instrument, or just someone singing a song they had stuck in their head. My brother could watch […]

When my water broke at 22 weeks my son was given 0% of survival, when he was born at 24 weeks and 2 days he was given a 55% chance of survial with 65% chance of long term health issued. We beat those odds. When he was 4 days old they started scanning him for […]

I am a part of a few mommy groups but there is one I post in quite a lot in one of them because the admins are great and keep a lot of people in check. There is a lot less negativity there and next to no mommy shamming, I have done a post about […]

This is what I have learned and what I would like to pass on to moms about to embark on the same journey we did almost 3 years ago now. I have 10 points of advice that I wish another mom would have told me right from the start, as the first week is just […]

Toddlers really are ass holes…. After all the drama, heartache and stress my son put us through you would think I would be a bit more understanding…. Understanding went away with his ability to listen. He is still a good boy don’t get me wrong, but he still can be a bit of an ass […]

The one thing that mommy’s love the most…. Well the one thing this mommy has learned to love the most is Grandma and Grandpa visits. Whether its us going to see them, them coming to visit our happy little home or the best the over night visit for the little one! I love my son […]

When your baby is born 4 months early like mine, means he may be 11 months old actually but developmentally he is only 7 months old. Even then some preemies are more behind than that, it all depends on the type of issues and complications surrounding their stay in the hospital and NICU, anyways going […]