Parker’s Birth and NICU Story When deciding to have a second child, my husband and I focused on one detail, which was to get past 34 weeks with our second baby. Our first son, Hayden was born at 34 weeks and required 12 days in intensive care to grow and overcome jaundice. At 21, this [...]

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Thank you to Jane for this birth story. As she puts it, it’s “somewhat sad, but has a happy ending”. Tara’s birth story: When I was about four months pregnant, my husband of five years left me and my young son. I always believed he would return, but he didn’t. I had a great support [...]

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Sorry for the lack of info this past week–it’s been crazy at work, plus we had grandparent departures and arrivals back to back. So–I meant to share this from last weekend’s New York Times, an article on what sounds like a fairly sound approach to the fourth trimester. Some of it doesn’t appeal to me–I [...]

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