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@nathann I got the same thing “Which one’s older?” “Baby A” “Oh, really because the other ones bigger” … yeah, like that 4 minutes is going to make a difference! Plus they’re about the same weight, but baby B is shorter so he looks chunkier.

@hoodlesshunter You have 6 children, ages 5 and under! You’re a superhero and a bad ass!

@wesmurray He was diagnosed with dysphasia from the first swallow study, but they couldn’t diagnose the cause (laryngeal cleft) until they put him under anesthesia. Luckily (idk how lucky it really was)… he needed ear tubes so the ENT was able to look at his throat during that procedure...

@jayh87 This might be a long shot because idk how common it is, but my NICU baby wouldn’t take a bottle or boob either. The speech pathologist was brought in (they work with swallowing too) and she did a swallow study. It turns out he has dysphasia and aspirates when he has thin liquids (when he...

@lisajcoleman1 Baby A was head down, B was transverse (but they expected he’d be head down after baby A came out and he was). Apparently I was a “good candidate for a vaginal delivery” because I’d had a prior vaginal delivery. I’m really glad I followed my doctor’s advice and had the vaginal...

@thelearner92 Our situation was different than yours, but something that helped me get through the NICU journey was remembering that someday relatively soon, it would all be a memory. Please remember that someday this will all be a memory. Something I’ve learned in parenting is that the cliches...

@faith33 Thanks for sharing this! My oldest and one of my twins are very good “self-soothers”, but my other twin can’t seem to figure it out. We’ve been trying so hard to teach him to self-soothe, but the only way to get him to sleep without screaming himself to sleep is if we hold him or rub...