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grade 4 bleed
- By babyinmay · New reply April 18, 2009
- 15 replies
- Hello, my name is Tonia. I had my little baby girl on jan.30th at 24 weeks. she had a grade 4 brain bleed. Althought I have been given my baby's possible future, I insist on fighting for her life. She ...
How to deal with all that comes with being the parent of a preemie
- By Mommie42983 · New reply April 14, 2009
- 11 replies
- At 24 weeks I was told our daughter wouldn't make it due to her placenta slowly shutting down. At 26 weeks and 4 days I was admitted into the hospital with help syndrome. The doctors then informed me ...
domperidone usage
- By EvinsMom · New reply March 29, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hey All- My sister has been on domperidone for the last 2 and a half months and she was wondering if any of you have any experience with the drug. She is wondering if she will need to take it the whole ...
hypospadeus
- By mayank · New reply March 29, 2009
- 1 reply
- tell me something about your expereinces ...
Preemie dolls
- By Nevaeh-113 · New reply March 21, 2009
- 10 replies
- I am just posting this everywhere cause there seems to be so much interest where I first posted it. There seems to be just as interested as me. The site is www.weebundles.com Here is my original post ...
A missing tooth
- By Anna5 · New reply March 20, 2009
- 12 replies
- My daughter is a 27 weeker,she is 20 months now.She grew a tooth while she was in a NICU and it fell out before she was discharged(pretty wierd),now she has almost all of her teeth on the bottom except ...
hearing loss
- By Abbey78 · New reply March 20, 2009
- 4 replies
- My little girl is 15 months old (12 months adjusted) she was found to have unilateral hearing loss right off. The EENT thinks its from meds she was given in the nicu for a blood infection. Well we went ...
Section on Savings/Tips
- By k · New reply February 25, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hello, I just wanted to know if there was a section on the site that could be used or is used to inform users of Savings or Tips that they can use. If there is not, I would like to see one started. I ...
Im new and could use some advice
- By JCEM · New reply February 21, 2009
- 3 replies
- Im a very concerned mom and not sure what to do. My baby is 8months old born at 33 plus 2, so almost 7 adjusted. We have bin giving her cereal 4 a while now and did very well, we just started thinkening ...
PAIN KILLER ON PREEMIES
- By GRAMMY38 · New reply February 20, 2009
- 8 replies
- does anyone know of the pain med they give the babies and what happens to them...they took my granddaughter off of some meds she has only been on a week ..cold turkey and she went into withdrawl now they ...
Ruptured @ 23 weeks
- By Blessedchild37 · New reply February 11, 2009
- 9 replies
- I am currently 26weeks2days my water bag ruptured at 23 weeks . I was wondering have anyone experienced this before and what was the out come. My doctors has informed me that they would like the baby ...
Immunity support
- By Anna5 · Posted February 10, 2009
- 0 replies
- I was just wondering what everyone does in support of the immune system for your preemies,such as special foods,drinks,supplements etc. Thanks ...
swollen lymph nodes
- By mommyinneed · New reply February 9, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi all, Just wondering if any of your babies on the RSV shot have had swollen lymph nodes? My baby has had them since I brought him home from NICU and I have always thought they were due to all of the ...
Possible food allergy?
- By EvinsMom · New reply February 4, 2009
- 5 replies
- I'm wondering if anyone else seen anything like this before: I fed my son eggs this morning for the third time- actually, they are more like "tastes". Today though, he broke out with this rash around ...
Spit up
- By mommyoftwins11708 · New reply February 1, 2009
- 10 replies
- My daughter is spitting up more often than before. She does have reflux, but she used to only spit up every few days, if even that often. She is now spitting up a little about 1 hour after a feeding ...
stiff ankels
- By mommyinneed · New reply January 23, 2009
- 7 replies
- okay all you preemie moms I am in need of advice. I took my son daniel to the neonatologist today for a checkup and the doctor pointed out how his ankels are a little on the stiff side. My son is 9 months ...
Needing help with routine/schedule for Henry.
- By Henrys_Mommy · New reply January 21, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hi again. First of all I want to thank everyone for all the loving support I got from my last entry- "What about Mommy?" Things are better, at least for now. My inquiry today will help to insure things ...
Search Engine
- By katek · New reply January 20, 2009
- 2 replies
- Dear Help Desk, Before this website was recrafted and became inspire, the previous website had a nice search engine feature whereby when you clicked on a person's name, it would list not just the discussions ...
Vitamins.
- By mommyoftwins11708 · New reply January 10, 2009
- 9 replies
- My son and daughter had their hematocrits checked yesterday and their iron was a little low. They have to start taking liquid vitamins with iron. My son vomits (not spit up) after he takes vitamins. He ...
turning head to the left mostly
- By majak · New reply January 8, 2009
- 20 replies
- hi my son tend to turn his had do the left mostly even in the TT he is more in the left ,he does turn right but not as often,I try to position him differently but he prefer this one side,are there any ...
