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Why are we here?

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2008
  • 49 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Support your group and raise awareness with badges

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 20, 2008
  • 24 recommendations
  • Hi everyone. We added a new feature today that you can use to support your groups and the organizations that sponsor them, and get the word out about the causes that are important to you. If you visit ...

New feature - See what you've replied to

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted April 25, 2008
  • 18 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a feature that many of you have requested - a list of all of the posts that you have replied to. To get to your list, all you need to do is: 1. Sign in 2. Click "Me" in the ...

Welcome from TeamInspire!

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted March 13, 2008
  • 16 recommendations
  • 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 ...

Sometimes we make mistakes

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted May 23, 2008
  • 14 recommendations
  • 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 ...

New feature: video!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted June 28, 2008
  • 13 recommendations
  • I am pleased to announce that we have updated Inspire to support video. You can now share a video of yourself, videos that you find inspirational or informative, and more. I've included one of myself ...

Welcome!

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted March 13, 2008
  • 12 recommendations
  • I am pleased to present Inspire 2.0 -- the result of many months of fun and hard work. We have made numerous improvements to your community, the vast majority of which are ideas that came from you! We ...

Changes that you have requested are on the way

Beth
  • By Beth · Posted March 28, 2008
  • 9 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We've been hard at work on many of the great suggestions that you've sent us. This week we've been cooking up some changes to the group home page, and hope to make them public very soon ...

New feature - additional reply notifications

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted May 5, 2008
  • 8 recommendations
  • Hello everyone. We just added a new feature to help you follow the conversations that you are participating in. You will now get a notification whenever someone replies directly to one of your replies ...

Privacy and control

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted August 27, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • At Inspire, we think about privacy all the time. Virtually every web site has a privacy policy; you can read ours here: http://www.inspire.com/about/privacy/. But simply following the letter of a privacy ...

Upcoming improvements to the messaging system

Walter
  • By Walter · Posted June 1, 2008
  • 7 recommendations
  • 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 · Posted June 10, 2008
  • 6 recommendations
  • 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 ...

New feature - profile completeness gauge

Tasha
  • By Tasha · Posted June 12, 2008
  • 5 recommendations
  • Greetings from TeamInspire! I'm your friendly neighborhood designer, here to tell you about some new features. You might notice that today we revamped your member homepage - https://www.inspire.com/member-home.pl ...

My miracle 23 weeker

bgirlbullocks
  • By bgirlbullocks · Posted September 10, 2007
  • 2 recommendations
  • I am just looking for some encouragement. I am a first time parent of a preemie. My baby girl was born at just 23 weeks. I was told that her surviving one night was a miracle in itself. She will be two ...

Just Had Daniel at 25 Weeks

danielsmommy
  • By danielsmommy · Posted November 8, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • I just got back to my hospital room. My contractions started at 3:15. I had my son, Daniel, at 9:30 tonight. They took him so quickly. I almost didn't get to see him. My husband saw him and said he was ...

Questions linking Autism to Prematurity

Momof2girlzs
  • By Momof2girlzs · Posted October 6, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • Ok so I delivered a beautiful little girl over 4 years ago she was 31w 5d Weighing in at 2lb 12oz. She was in the hospital for almost 6 weeks and then came home weighing 4lb 6oz. There were no major complications ...

New NICU Real Estate ...

wikkedlilgrrl
  • By wikkedlilgrrl · Posted June 16, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • Lots of changes the last day or so ... please forgive me if I repeat myself. Went in to visit my precious boy only to find out that they relocated him to another section of the nursery and had been placed ...

Noob! Introductory.

Crusty_Lugholes
  • By Crusty_Lugholes · Posted May 13, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • My son was born at 23 weeks gestation. We were told "Your baby is not viable" on the night he was born. We were also told that he would most likely die in the night. He proved everyone wrong! We spent ...

Another poem

Nevaeh-113
  • By Nevaeh-113 · Posted May 3, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • I wrote this poem after that horrible article I read about preemies costing to much. Micro-Preemies Are Human Too Some might say to let you go How could these people sink that low? They say the cost is ...

CPAP Continued........

ImaMommy
  • By ImaMommy · Posted April 5, 2008
  • 1 recommendation
  • As promised here's my impression of Noah on his CPAP. The most beautiful child I have ever seen! Of course that's what everyone would say of their own child right. The only thing was that I was hoping ...

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