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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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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Part one is here… Of course it took a little while for the anesthesiologist to get there, so we walked some more. Once the anesthesiologist got there, having the epidural was quick and painless. Another doctor broke the water. The medicine took effect. The perinatologist I had been seeing for the entire pregnancy liked to [...]

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