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What Is “Adjusted Age” or “Corrected Age”?
I recently witnessed an extremely heated and sometimes mean-spirited discussion of the term “adjusted age.” One side felt that the term was derogatory to preemies, while the other side felt that their...
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Toddler Thursday: When Your Toddlers Aren’t Toddling Together
We’ve all heard the common question, “How do you do it?” That is how we got our name. Another common phrase I have heard over the years, as many parents of prematurely born twins do is, “They’ll catch...
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What Lasts: Carter’s Song
For years, Angela Bickford struggled through infertility and loss. Angela is now the mother of triplets, born prematurely, one of whom, Carter, passed away after 49 days. This song, originally...
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Allow Myself to Introduce … Myself
Like many of you, I have developed an arsenal of responses to, “wow, you have your hands full!” and “do twins run in your family?”. I, too, was once guilty of saying such things, in my life pre-twins,...
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Twinfant Tuesday: Multiple Infants with Multiple Needs
Getting ready for a day of appointments. The topic of Twinfant Tuesday came up and I wondered to myself and to Sadia, did I have a good experience during the infancy stage and do I have something to...
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World Prematurity Day 2014
In honor of World Prematurity Day 2014, we invite you to check out our past posts. Even those MoMs who carried their babies full term sometimes deal with survivors’ guilt, knowing the odds. We’d love...
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Postpartum Depression and PTSD: Here I Thought I Was Fine…
This post has been a long time coming, but I have to admit — I’ve been avoiding it like the plague. I started writing this post one year ago and I find that this is still a difficult subject for me to...
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Full-Term Envy Finally Ending
Being a Mother of Premature Infants I’m a preemie mom. I have healthy, happy, smart, opinionated, confident, amazing 8-year-old daughters. They’ve overcome any challenges thrown their way because of...
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Thoughts on Prematurity, 10 Years Later
Preemie. What image does that bring to mind? To many people, the term “preemie” is meaningless. To some, “preemie” calls up a perfect tiny newborn. When I hear it, the word “preemie” makes my stomach...
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Saint NICU
A Christmas wish to all NICU families. Thank you, Peekaboo ICU. SAINT NICU ‘Twas the night before Christmas, in the neonatal intensive care, all the babies were sleeping, while sounds of alarms filled...
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