Tag: NICU
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A Reflection on Resilience: Understanding Tulip Skin and the Journey to “Holland”
I recently finished Tulip Skin by Laura Sánchez, and it was exceptional. What resonated with me most was not just the resilience woven throughout the autobiography, but the way she wrote about motherhood, birth, and survival with such artesanal softness and brutal honesty. As she worked through the moments surrounding both of her children’s births, I found…
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When a Mother Isn’t Trusted: Parent Experience in the NICU
By that point in the NICU, my daughter was more stable, but we were in the part that lingers—the feeding, the waiting, the slow stretch before discharge. I had been changing her, holding her, and learning her cues. Not perfectly, but consistently. I wasn’t new to it anymore. One day, I was in the middle…
The Neuro Care Bridge 