“Dear NICU Mama, When it feels like too much, I hope you know you are a stronger woman now than you were before your NICU journey.
As a NICU mom, you show up day after day and endure long nights without your baby, while telling people who don’t understand that you are fine. At the same time, you learn how much strength it can take to feel your true emotions.
You learn to balance joy and grief and find strength to celebrate the smallest milestones even though it doesn’t always feel enough.
You learn to face and handle situations that others could never understand.
You navigate a world that does not always understand why you are so protective of your little miracle, and because of that, you have become the strongest advocate for your child.
You have become much stronger than you thought you would ever need to be, and you get to carry that strength throughout motherhood.”
Love,
Delaney
More of Our Journey:
“When we found out that I was having twins at our first ultrasound, we were immediately referred to a MFM doctor due to them being mono mono twins meaning they shared not only the same placenta but also the amniotic sac. This came with added risks in addition to ones typically associated with twin pregnancies. One of these being an extended hospital stay for frequent monitoring and pre-term delivery due to the increased risk of cord entanglement. Our initial goal was to make it to 32-34 weeks; however, during one of my monitoring sessions at 29 weeks, we learned our Baby B, Boone, was in fetal distress, and they were going to be born even earlier than we had planned. When they were born, I was able to see and hear our Baby A, Beau, cry, but Boone was so quiet and was immediately taken to our hospital’s NICU team.