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    Upset

    @nyvic I’m so sorry. You guys don’t deserve that.
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    Daughter broke up with her boyfriend of 4 years & it’s like I’m going through a breakup.

    @sylvie Can you get the tickets transferred to another destination, or just get his name off of it? They cannot be friends right now. Eventually? Sure. But they will be over there and things will be “familiar”. Or, he will get her over there and become abusive. And when she says, “he’s not like...
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    Is it acceptable to pushback? I feel they could get him home faster.

    @eline I know you want him home, but he still needs support. Reflux to the point he is needing oxygen just to eat isn’t just “a little thing” at all. If you had him home and he refluxed, clamped down, and didn’t recover, are you really okay with that possibility? Because I am a NICU nurse and I...
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    Frustrated. Time to vent

    @jsw3883 No, it isn’t coddling. And when you’re on the other side you will see that tough love is still love. Good luck!
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    Frustrated. Time to vent

    @jsw3883 That’s a pretty terrible mindset. I get you’re feeling sad about things not going the way you want them to, but to call this a failure is awful. Would you call your child a failure if she cannot do something no matter how hard she tried? Probably not. And you’re not losing at anything...
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    Frustrated. Time to vent

    @jsw3883 A g-tube is not giving up!! And it can certainly just be temporary. Don’t dismiss it when it is possibly what is best for your baby - with the added bonus of getting to go home. But please do not think that doing what is best for your baby is giving up. It isn’t at all giving up, just...
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    Tell me your stories of your 28-30 weekers

    @kimhimmel Born 29w, weighed 2lbs 11oz Pre-e w/severe features; emergency c/s after they lost his heart tones on the monitor and couldn’t find them again (he had a big decel and just never recovered), which coincided with my deciding it was just done with the pregnancy game and I fell apart. I...
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    What is one thing you learned/one thing nobody warned you about?

    @stormingwithjesus A lot of NICUs have them (they are basically just cut up receiving blankets). A piece cut from a t-shirt is what one parent preferred.
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    What is one thing you learned/one thing nobody warned you about?

    @carson It was definitely not my idea of a good time. But it did help give me more peace about going home knowing who was watching my baby and what to expect to get to go home, etc.
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    What is one thing you learned/one thing nobody warned you about?

    @carson It’s long, I’m sorry. I am a NICU nurse and was for a couple of years before I had my babe (29w). Being on the other side was so different and I give some different advice to my parents now. When they say it is like a roller coaster, that’s real! The good and the bad of it. You...
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