Do any parents have a little PTSD from their NICU stay? It’s been 2 months since we left the NICU and a month since my daughter has been monitor free. However certain and unexpected things set of my emotions. I was picking up the house with the TV on in the background and on the TV a microwave went off on the show that was playing. When I heard that beep every part of me just froze up. I felt my stomach sink and my heart stop. For a quick second I wanted to crawl up into a ball and cry. The beep sounded like her monitor. The noise it makes if she stops breathing. I still have nightmares from time to time and restless nights of sleep thinking of all the bad things that “could” happen. Does it ever get any easier?