NICU Grad Check In 11/29 (informal)

[penguin129]

***Copied and pasted from another thread.***



I posted a check in for those currently in the NICU, how about everyone else?



How are you and your LO(s) doing? Questions? Things to share?

[penguin129]

I'm hanging in there. Today was a good day and a rough day all at the same time. I took AG and HL to Mommy and Me for the first time since HL was born. AG was very happy to be back and I was too. She didn't listen to her teacher at one point so I had to give her a timeout in the room behind where everyone else was. I watched HL and the timer on my phone for 3 mins while the rest of the moms and kids danced to the song and asked me where AG was as they went by. It is so hard for me to discipline her because I was away from her for 8 days when HL was in the NICU. Then after the craft some of the moms were talking about their birth experience and I just wanted to cry because my second birth experience was very very different from the "gentle c-section" I was promised during the pregnancy.

We are walking/driving in our towns Christmas Parade tomorrow to help promote the group I created and Fundraiser we are having to raise money to give Moms staying at our Local Ronald McDonald house gift bags during the holidays. My group is how I am dealing with some of the anxiety and stress.