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Brennan has helped to save other babies like him.

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · Posted November 30, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Bren's primary nurse got in contact with me so that she could see Brennan. She has not seen him since July. She was impressed with how both boys were doing. Brennan is a little nutty but who can blame ...

Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply November 28, 2008
  • Journal · 134 replies
  • When we started this community, each of us faced important health issues in our lives. Some of us have family members with medical conditions. Many of us have medical conditions of our own. All of us ...

parents rights.

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · Posted November 16, 2008
  • Discussion in Growth and development · 0 replies
  • Brennan is back at children's and I want him to stay there and be discharged from home from there. I been told that he has to go back to the home. When he was at children's he was getting PT/OT once he ...

HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY BRENNAN AND CHRISTIAN

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply November 10, 2008
  • Journal · 10 replies
  • You are our little miracles. You have made it to one year and we have all survived. It is raining as if the angels and Alex are crying. We love you ...

Excuse Me!!

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply November 9, 2008
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Ever since I moved in I have had issues with our neighbors downstairs. I knew the day would come when they would complain about Christian. I had already told the guard that he like to kick when he lies ...

Lily's progress

LilyMaesmommy
  • By LilyMaesmommy · New reply November 1, 2008
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Last night at about 1:30 am the doctor called. Lily has been having a few breathing problems and some other issues. Over the past week they have been constantly going up and down on her high flow and ...

PLEASE SUGGESTHEALTHY AND NUTRICIOUS FOOD FOR WEIGHT GROWTH

PAVANI
  • By PAVANI · Posted October 24, 2008
  • Discussion in Growth and development · 0 replies
  • My son is 8 month 2 week. His weight is 7 kgs . I am feeding in 600 Ml dairy milk per day, 2times cerelac, 1 time rice and one time Ragi . I am an employee. My in-laws are taking care of my baby upto ...

The boys are doing great

Feistylioness78
  • By Feistylioness78 · New reply October 17, 2008
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • Brennan goes off the vent twice a day for four hours and loves. He actually gets upset when they put in back on. He has been taken off of 4 of his meds and being weaned off of another. He will be getting ...

SUGGESTION FOR WEIGHT GROWTH

PAVANI
  • By PAVANI · New reply October 16, 2008
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • MY SON IS PRETERM BABY WITH BIRTH WEIGHT OF 1.5kg . HE WAS IN NICE FOR A PERIOD OF 1 MONTH AND WEIGHT LOST TO 1.3 KG. NOW HE WAS 8 MONHT 1 WEEK . HIS WEIGHT IS 7 KGS . IS THIS WEIGHT IS OK or LESS FOR ...

Unpredictable Feeding - Help?

whelan
  • By whelan · New reply July 17, 2008
  • Discussion in Nutrition · 3 replies
  • Hello, all. Our 5 month-old son is experiencing very unpredictable feeding within the last 2-3 weeks. He screams for his food (formula), takes and ounce or two and then writhes away angrily like we are ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply July 7, 2008
  • Journal · 23 replies
  • Hello everyone. I'm writing to let you know about some long overdue improvements that we'll be making to this site's messaging system later this week. The messages section is the most frequently visited ...

Improvements to the message system are complete

Walter
  • By Walter · New reply June 22, 2008
  • Journal · 14 replies
  • Hello everyone. Just a quick note to let you know that the improvements to the message system that I wrote about previously are complete. You can check them out now. You'll notice that we've grouped your ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Two months ago, when we launched Inspire 2.0, we added a group called 'Team Inspire'. We did this with the best intentions: we wanted the group to be a space for new members to get oriented, ask questions ...

BPD - when does it start to go away?

koober1
  • By koober1 · New reply May 27, 2008
  • Discussion in Growth and development · 1 reply
  • My son Anthony is a 26 weeker. He's 11 months old now. Got off oxygen a couple months ago. YAY. I'm just wondering when a child with BPD actually starts to sound like they breathe easier. Anthony breathes ...

1 Year Old Milestones

nehemiah2007
  • By nehemiah2007 · Posted April 9, 2008
  • Discussion in Milestones · 0 replies
  • Well Nehemiah will be 1 on May 20th i'm so excited. He was a preemie (i gave birth 1 day into my 24th week) so he's behind some but the Dr said he should catch up when he's 1 going on two. What are some ...

My micro preemie twins.

BitsandPieces
  • By BitsandPieces · Posted April 9, 2008
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Hello, I have micro preemie twin girls who are now 17 months old. They both suffered from grade II and IV IVH bleeds shortly after birth. Both are doing well, though we have not gotten away without having ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · New reply April 7, 2008
  • Journal · 35 replies
  • Hello, old friends and new. Today is a big day for us! We have made numerous improvements to your community, most that were suggestions from you. As you can see the site is very different then before ...

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