When your baby is born, you expect your experience to go just like all the parenting books have taught you. You’ll have an easy delivery, followed by a few days resting with your beautiful baby in a comfortable maternity room. It doesn’t always go that way, however. And that’s where the neonatal intensive care unit […]
My name is Shanda Smallwood, and I am a proud mother of a former 24-weeker. It gives me great joy to share a little of our story. On November 7, 2014, I called my doctor and informed her that something wasn’t feeling right, as every 10 to 15 minutes, I was getting a throbbing feeling […]
My husband, Christopher, and I were elated when we discovered that we were expecting. Every doctor’s appointment showed that everything was progressing as expected, …but on Mother’s Day, I was in an ambulance on the way from WakeMed Cary to WakeMed in Raleigh with the certainty that this child that we had hoped and prayed […]
No matter the differences in medical complications or care between NICU babies, parents feel the same emotions: trauma, sadness, fear, guilt, happiness and most importantly love. An Unexpected Father’s Day Surprise My water broke unexpectedly on June 14th (my husband’s birthday), and I was rushed to WakeMed where they hoped I would stay for the next 7 […]
Ginger and Brandon Baxley were enjoying a date night at their favorite restaurant when Ginger’s water broke. Ginger was just 28 weeks pregnant. She shares their birth story below. You can also view their birth story here. I was barely in my third trimester so immediately we knew this was not a good situation for […]
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