[NICU: a neonatal intensive care unit] There are no words I can put together right now to describe all the rollercoaster emotions I am feeling. It’s a mixture of seeing Alyssa in NICU, having Ava visit me at the hospital but still seeing how sad she is because her sister and I can’t come home…
It’s been a crazy 6 weeks being home with a newborn and 2 year old toddler. My days are getting mixed up, the day never seems to have enough hours, and sleep deprivation is something I thought was bad with my first but is no where comparable this time around. My children are complete opposites,…
The first week home with Amelia has been a bit chaotic. We were discharged from the hospital on Saturday after she was born. Even then, we weren’t sure if she’d be able to come home with us that day because of her jaundice levels. However, her pediatrician gave us the OK once her levels had…
I probably should have wrote the summary of Ava’s birth story immediately after it happened, but because she was my first and a lot of things occurred during and thereafter, I simply never had the time. Let’s just say hers was an extremely long labor. I’ll have to find the time to write my experience…
In all my younger years, I never thought I’d soon be a parent of 2. Though the day I married my husband, I became a parent of 1 before I had Ava, so in actuality, I am about to be a parent of 3 (joint custody, so we see his son during every other…
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