Each parent will have their own unique experience of living with a premature baby. Some babies will go home on oxygen, need continuous special care and some will be re-admitted to hospital quite a few times in the first year of life because they are very septile to colds, flu and infections.
We have been very [...]

I never realised just how emotional I was going to get about breast milk. 
I remember the obstetrician asking me if I planned to breastfeed, minutes after he had told me I might be having a baby at 26 weeks.  Yes, I replied sadly, assuming it would be impossible to produce milk under the circumstances, not [...]

In one of my frequent searches of Google I found this article entitled Ambiguous loss of premature birth. It basically says that, while our babies may be a live there is still a grieving process associated with the loss of a healthy pregnancy and a full term baby.

When grief is related to loss of an [...]

The other day I discovered the wonderfully cheeky League of Maternal Justice, committed “to expose the injustices perpetrated against mothers everywhere and to exact vengeance through aggressive finger-wagging and online shaming”.
Superhero Lactavista single handedly defends breast feeders with her super action nursing bra and double power breast pump, but what made me smile was the [...]

I rode the lift to the fifth floor just as I had every day for the first 148 days of my child’s life. This time however, was different. We were going back. Only for a follow up appointment but the squirming, uneasy sensation in my stomach and my sweaty palms didn’t seem to know that.
My [...]

Three months after we left the Special Care Nursery, last week I finally ran into a brick wall, emotionally. Perversely, I think it is because the weather improved. All winter I complained about being stuck indoors due to the rain, but now the sun has come out I still can’t stop feeling fragile [...]