NICU Awareness Month

September is NICU awareness month, and it’s something I never imagined I’d be a part of. Making it to full term with my pregnancy, my baby being admitted to NICU wasn’t something that even crossed my mind. We were blessed that she only had to stay a short time, other babies aren’t so lucky and my heart truly goes out to those parents. I missed out on a lot of things that parents to new babies get to do, like having her in my room at the hospital, giving her her first sponge bath, and (in my case) breastfeeding exclusively right away..just to name a few. 8 hours after being born she was airlifted to a hospital better equipped for her. 11 hours after giving birth I was released from the hospital and right by her side in the NICU the whole time. It was devastating to see my baby hooked up to all of these machines, and those few days felt like months. Each machine she was taken off of felt like such huge milestones, ones that no parent should have to celebrate. Teagan is now thriving & successfully breastfeeding by the grace of God and the nurses who care for these tiny babies. So, please, include NICU babies, and especially the parents, in your thoughts/prayers/good vibes. I have never been through anything as emotionally and mentally draining as that, so I can’t imagine what the parents go through whose babies are there for weeks/months.

I posted a couple of pics of my LO just because I never got to the day she was born. ♥️ Teagan was born August 8 at 2:34 AM after 35 hours of labor!