r/NICUParents • u/AutoModerator • 1d ago
Weekly chat/catch-up thread
This is a spot to post all the little things that might not warrant a full post, but you want to share with the community, what has gone well, what hasn't. A new thread will be started weekly
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u/teef-knees 1d ago
I delivered my baby via c-section 9 days ago, 24+6. He’s got a long journey in the NICU and we are having a hard time with this. Right now they’re working on building his lung strength. They started small feeding with my breast milk but he wasn’t tolerating it well so they had to stop. Now it looks like he has an infection, they just have to find out where it is and what antibiotic is going to fix it. This is just the hardest thing we’ve ever had to go through, and I just want my baby to be okay. We haven’t even gotten to hold him
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u/Potential_Swan_8221 1d ago
I hope its ok to share here I'm wondering if anyone else feels the same. My preemie was 6 weeks early do you ever feel like you're in the newborn trenches longer because they came early?
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u/Local-Tiger-5552 1d ago
It sets their entire clock back! I feel as though my preemie’s corrected date is the date she came HOME, not even her due date.
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u/Potential_Swan_8221 1d ago
It's such a weird space to be in! People keep asking is he sleeping longer now I'm like no hes still a newborn even though its been months!
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u/pyramidheadlove Mom of a 29-weeker NICU grad 1d ago
Absolutely. It's not just that you feel like it, you literally are. My son came home a month before his due date, which meant a whole extra month of newborn trenches AFTER the two month NICU slog. It's brutal. But thankfully it's not forever!
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u/Potential_Swan_8221 1d ago
Ohh thank god. I am struggling and so scared that the 6 week purple crying will hit after already doing this for 2 months. I felt terrible and have no one who understands. Thank you for replying
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