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    New NICU Father. All help and advice please

    @torm3nted_soul Wow we could have used that in the NICU!
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    New NICU Father. All help and advice please

    @lexymay21 The mornings are often a good time to visit because that's when doctors usually make their rounds and you can talk to them about baby. We were never there in the am and we barely got to speak with the doctors
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    New NICU Father. All help and advice please

    @canonef Our situation was exactly the same, it feels like I wrote this myself! We all have to do whatever we can to get through one of the most difficult things you can face. If I had been at the NICU for more than a couple of hours each day my mental and physical health would have suffered a...
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    NICU Fatigue

    @truckingalongforgod This brought me back. 100 days in the NICU, it was...agony. 3 hour round-trip commute to the NICU daily, while my cat was in his final months, and I was torn between my sick, far-away baby - and my sick, dying cat at home. Nearly 6 years later and it's thankfully a distant...
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    Husband forgetting to turn oxygen on

    @mybloodyxxromance We went home with a monitor and it went off in the middle of the night usually at least a couple of times per night, and they were all false alarms! It was very stressful and we woke up so many times with our hearts racing and we were very glad to discontinue the use of the...
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    NICU Massage: helpful or overstimulation?

    @kaferty I agree with everyone saying to wait. My guy was in the NICU for 100 days and near our departure a LMT taught me some baby massage. At that point he was more than 3 months old - but it wasn't really what we consider to be massage, more light stroking than any rubbing or pressure...
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