We added two pages for parents, our original page, NICU for Parents and the new page Tips for CHD Parents. These pages were added to help provide some helpful tips to CHD parents from our learning experiences. Please feel free to send us any tips to add.
NICU FOR PARENTS
We thought it would help to list some things for parents to prepare themselves for the long stay ahead of their baby in the NICU. Some of our notes will only pertain to where we stayed with both of our kids and the diagnosis of why they were there. It could be different for your baby and we noticed things change in short periods of time in the NICU environment from the first time we were there to three years later for our second stay. If you have any questions about our stay or about your stay, please feel free to contact us.
TIPS FOR CHD PARENTS
We want to share suggestions that we have learned along the way with other CHD parents. We hope you can learn from our experiences and hopefully save you a little stress. This page will be a constant work in progress and we will add as we learn or remember experiences. Please share any helpful tips you have to add to our page and consider this page a communal effort.
PICU FOR PARENTS
This is information for parents who are on their second surgery, or maybe the first surgery, coming from home that are not already in the hospital after birth. Your child is probably older and will be in the PICU not the NICU. This is something that is a work in progress but we wanted to add this section because the experience is a little different than post-birth surgery and already being in the NICU.
NICU FOR PARENTS
We thought it would help to list some things for parents to prepare themselves for the long stay ahead of their baby in the NICU. Some of our notes will only pertain to where we stayed with both of our kids and the diagnosis of why they were there. It could be different for your baby and we noticed things change in short periods of time in the NICU environment from the first time we were there to three years later for our second stay. If you have any questions about our stay or about your stay, please feel free to contact us.
TIPS FOR CHD PARENTS
We want to share suggestions that we have learned along the way with other CHD parents. We hope you can learn from our experiences and hopefully save you a little stress. This page will be a constant work in progress and we will add as we learn or remember experiences. Please share any helpful tips you have to add to our page and consider this page a communal effort.
PICU FOR PARENTS
This is information for parents who are on their second surgery, or maybe the first surgery, coming from home that are not already in the hospital after birth. Your child is probably older and will be in the PICU not the NICU. This is something that is a work in progress but we wanted to add this section because the experience is a little different than post-birth surgery and already being in the NICU.