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Our son was born at 25 weeks. He has had a pda closure and has BPD. He is now 10 weeks adjusted. We just brought him home on 1/2 liter of oxygen and he has been doing well with it since they have put him on it. I am just curious of a average time that he will stay on the oxygen until they can...

After a few days of thinking I was just experiencing incontinence, woke up this morning and decided the “small leaks” were worth getting checked out. Turns out it was definitely amniotic fluid. We’re admitted to hospital for antibiotics and steroids for babies. And sounds like we’ll be staying...

Welp Reddit it happened. Our miracle little 550g baby now almost 13 pounds can breath but in 2 days of cue based feeding she now rejects bottles, all of them. We went from 30% bottles to 0% in 2 days. I can’t help but wonder if our nursing staff is just so used to baby’s hating bottles since...

Two weeks ago, I gave birth to 2 beautiful twin girls at 30+1. I was diagnosed with severe preeclampsia at 29+0, admitted to the hospital where my water broke at 29+5. They were born into the world kicking and screaming, both well under 3 lbs. They are already showing great improvements, but I...

My daughter was born on Aug 28th at exactly 26 weeks via emergency c-section after incompetent cervix & PPROM. She was on a ventilator for a few days and then moved to a bubble CPAP shortly after. She is now 11 days old and about a week ago she started having bradycardias and spitting up during...

Kind of a follow-up to this post... https://www.reddit.com/r/daddit/comments/1amw4d6/so_much_to_unpack_i_need_help_though/ Oldest Daughter - A Younger Daughter - J EX - L CPS is dropping their case as unfounded. They just need to do home visits sometime this week to double-check. I've spoken...

Hi everybody. I am a new mom. We have twins in NICU a boy (2lbs11oz) and a girl (2lbs 4 oz) They were born on Wednesday (27th) at 26 wks 4 days. We knew they would be early, I have a septum in my uterus and they were both on the same side. I'd gone into early labor @23 weeks but we managed to...

Hello y’all, Shy has been intubated. She has some inflammation in her intestines😞 They think we caught it early enough tho. They started her on 3 different antibiotics that seem to be working so far. These next 2 days are going to be long and stressful, and I’m already a mess😭😭 She has a tube to...

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck. We have a boisterous two and a half year old and we had a baby a month and a half ago and this week we found out that my wife doesn't have A sprain or ongoing pain from other pregnancy problems.She has a tumor in her leg. Thankfully, it's supposedly benign.We'll find out...

Posting to share my story and see if others have had similar experiences and how it turned out. 25+1 FTM. We were diagnosed asymmetric IUGR at the 6th percentile at 24+1. Baby is weighing 543g, his abdomen and head look fine but arms and legs are tiny, in the >1%. Negative NIPT results, no...

I gave birth to my daughter almost 7 weeks ago at 30 and 0 because I had an arterial bleed and a uterine rupture. The last thing we need to do before we can go home is master oral feeding. She’s taking at most 4ML by mouth with a bottle and having trouble sucking when she’s at the breast. I feel...

My best friend Mike and his wife Grace are both attorneys and parents. Mike shares his wealth of knowledge through tutoring students of all ages. While Grace is an licensed attorney and member in good standing with the PA Bar Assoc. Both are extremely caring and attentive parents. As well as...

Just need to vent. I'm a WFH Dad, married to a SAHM. We have a 5yo, 2yo and one due in a couple months. Homeschooling the 5yo. She was in the workforce pre-kids. But she wanted to be a SAHM. My earning potential is 3-5x hers because of our diff fields, and I laid a solid financial base before...

The doctor called today and said in a couple weeks we may be discharged with a g-tube. I feel like this is the end of the world for us. We’ve been working on feeding for 4 weeks and our girl is 41+5 now, born at 27+3. They said around 44-45 weeks if she’s not better with eating we will be...

Did any of your kids have long lasting issues after the NICU. Specifically those of you whose kids needed surfactant? My son was born 34+2 (OG thought to be 36+2) and needed two rounds of surfactant. He was intubated for 5 days and spent 2.5 weeks in the NICU. We’ve been home for about 2...

UPDATE: First, thank you to everyone who took the time to share their experiences and encourage self-advocacy. I contacted the on call doctor. She felt comfortable with me being home taking prescribed Flexeril and resting, but if I needed assurance, to go back to L&D. I chose to stay home on my...

Hi - since I have a preemie, doc wants us to stay on 24 calorie enfamil although it is impossible to find outside the hospital. We have been given the instructions below to create it from 20 cal enfacare. Although this suggests 0.2oz displacement when in reality it is like 10 mL.. has anyone...