#nicu mom

[cosytofu]

i am often described as the ray of sunshine in my immediate circle. i don’t know how that is but i also am struggling to be it. my daughters in the nicu, she might be sick with a cold because my partners feeling sick. i’m dealing with terrible pain 11 days postpartum. i don’t know how to love without anxiety. i know it’s okay not to be okay but at the same time i don’t want to be a downer. i can’t be. every time i am down for a long period of time i’m abandoned or told i’m too much. i’m stressing about SIDS. i’m stressing about her getting sick as a 29 week baby. i’m stressed about me getting sick being so weak right now. i’m so stressed. how do people do this??? how do you just hope for the best when everything is so scary??? post partum depression is also kicking my ass because my milk productions been low and i feel like i’m not doing the best for my baby who so needs the milk right now. we moved this week and idk what’s exhaustion from that and what’s my body giving up on me. i might have had heart damage from birth. im just. 🫠 any moms who have been through anything similar want to offer advice hmu. having my daughter in the nicu on mother’s day is horrible. life’s hard right now. im incredibly blessed but how quickly can that all be taken away?

#my posts #myposts #nicu mom #mothers day

[nikkifalcon]

I need to put this out in the world, but I don’t know where else to do it. So here we go.

My baby is 8 weeks old. She was born 10 weeks early. (That’s a different story for a different day.)

She will only sleep when being held right now. I cannot for the life of me get her to sleep anywhere- crib, pack & play, bassinet, etc.

Not only am I beyond delicious because I am so fucking tired, but I feel like an absolute failure as a mom.

What am I doing wrong? How can I fix this? Why is this so hard?

Being a mom is hands down the hardest thing I have ever and will ever do.

#new mom #nicu mom #8 week baby #so tired #someone save me #newborns are the worst #lemme sleep

[sodafizzyart]

(ER AU)

Ok so I was stuck on either having ハンジ as an MD for ER/ED, ICU, or like infectious disease…but tbh their horrible work habits, love for action, and messy habits are ER lol.

リヴァイ is the only paramedic that actually shows up on time and can start an IV on anything, anywhere.

#ok so during my CC clinical there was an ER MD that literally was stoked to do a cardioversion and was so pumped that the vasovagal #straw method and meds didn’t work #also the conversation with the kiddo is uhm #a one way convo I had with a NICU baby #baby was going straight to foster care bc mom was an addict #I cried when feeding baby and poured out my heart to it in the ward #snk #aot #levihan fanart #levihan #levi ackerman #hanji zoe #hange zoe #shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan

[a-moment-captured]

9 years ago today:

❤️I was finally released from the hospital after 3 days and was able to go to Columbia to see Coit. I remember my nurse and a good friend now, helped pull my hair back before she got off that morning and gave me the biggest and best hug that I needed.

All my hospital bracelets were still on and having to sit in the car for 2 hours after having surgery for a 4th degree tear was awful. This was the first time I had seen him since he was born but seeing Coit took all pain away.

I honestly don’t know how I was standing at this point. I desperately needed to pump. I needed sleep and I looked a mess, but all I wanted was to touch and see Coit.

@heavyhitterheaux this is the time frame where I made the decision to become a nurse. Right after getting to Coit in the NICU, I made the decision.

@harlowsbby your baby as a tiny baby!

#life with Coit #nicu #first time mom #mom life #love #devotion #nurselife #nurse life #autism #autism acceptance #autism acceptence month #autism awareness #autism warrior #adhd and autism #adhd #adhd acceptance

[carolrain]

Bold all that applies to you

Thank you for tagging me @smblmn @ramonaflow @a-noble-dragon

APPEARANCE: i’m over 5’5” // i wear glasses/contacts // i have blonde hair // i prefer loose clothing to tight clothing// i have one or more piercings // i have at least one tattoo // i have blue eyes // i have dyed or highlighted my hair // i have gotten plastic surgery // i have or had braces // i sunburn easily // i have freckles // i paint my nails // i typically wear make-up // i don’t often smile // i am pleased with how i look // i prefer nike to adidas // i wear baseball hats backwards

HOBBIES AND TALENTS: i play a sport // i can play an instrument // i am artistic // i know more than one language // i have won a trophy in some sort of competition // i can cook or bake without a recipe // i know how to swim // i enjoy writing // i can do origami // i prefer movies to tv shows // i can execute a perfect somersault // i enjoy singing // i could survive in the wild on my own // i have read a new book series this year // i enjoy spending time with friends // i travel during school or work breaks (if i can afford it) // i can do a handstand

RELATIONSHIP: i am in a relationship // i have been single for over a year // i have a crush // i have a best friend i have known for ten years // my parents are together // i have dated my best friend // i am adopted // my crush has confessed to me // i have a long distance relationship // i am an only child // i give advice to my friends // i have made an online friend // i met up with someone i have met online

AESTHETICS: i have heard the ocean in a conch shell // i have watched the sun rise // i enjoy rainy days // i have slept under the stars // i meditate outside // the sound of chirping calms me // i enjoy the smell of the beach // i know what snow tastes like // i listen to music to fall asleep // i enjoy thunderstorms // i enjoy cloud watching // i have attended a bonfire // i pay close attention to colours // i find mystery in the ocean // i enjoy hiking on nature paths // autumn is my favourite season 🍂

MISCELLANEOUS: i can fall asleep in a moving vehicle // i am the mom friend // i live by a certain quote // i like the smell of sharpies // i am involved in extracurricular activities // i enjoy mexican food // i can drive a stick-shift // i believe in true love // i make up scenarios to fall asleep // i sing in the shower // i wish i lived in a video game // i have a canopy above my bed // i am multiracial // i am a redhead // i own at least three dogs

Tagging @mostlyinthemorning @flowertrigger @chelle-68 @trickiwooao3 @mammameesh @statueinthestone @demora00 @apothecarose @stargazer56 and also promising I'm gonna go work on that stupid poll result fic now.

#tag game #my pierced ears closed when baby was in the nicu #keeping my hands still for nail painting is excruciating #my hair is the prettiest it’s ever been #with streaks of silver #would say crafty not artistic #lot of sexist & classist connotations there though #won trophy for a poster not bc it was best drawn #but bc I was only kid who followed the rules #won cross country trophy bc 20 trophies & 20 girls showed #and trophy for being salutatorian #could keep myself alive if I fell off a boat #have friends known for decades #but best friend of 20 years & I had big falling out #miss her but impossible to fix #am a mom but not your mom #what does extracurricular mean 30 years out of high school #might remember stick-shift if forced to #don’t know about true love #or why I don’t sing in the shower

[honeystwiggypeach]

If you don't mind can i request an angst to fluff scenario with shirabu where his newborn baby is very sick and still hasn't able to leave the nicu as a doctor shirabu feels utterly useless and couldn't even bear to look at his baby but seeing his wife visiting their baby everyday and hearing her assurance that it's not his fault and that their baby will be ok he finally decide to visit with his wife as much as possible and apologize to his baby for not being there then gradually their baby show enough signs of improvements to go home and the parents just cry tears of joy 😭

I know this isn't what i usually request and it's a pretty heavy scenario but i just couldn't get it out of my head and shirabu is like perfect for it 😔 you don't have to write it if you don't want to or if it makes you uncomfortable of course!

Bestie I’ll be honest I wasn’t sure if I wanted to write this because I don’t have much experience with the nicu and premie babies and I don’t want to be insensitive because that’s a very touchy subject for lots of people, but I’m hoping this doesn’t come out insensitive (if anyone finds this insensitive pls let me know so I can fix it!!)

Part two here!

Tw: premature birth, nicu stays, premature baby, angst to fluff, guilt, crying, possibly a breach in hippa guide lines(the doctors talk about declining healths of patients), baby comes home for the first time, cursing

He could feel the guilt eating at him everyday. Everyday he’d come home from the hospital to you crying because your precious little girl had been born premature, this meant she would have to stay in the nicu for a while before she could come home to ensure she’d be healthy.

He couldn’t help his own daughter because he’d be a conflict of interest and it only made him feel worse, how was he supposed to trust his colleges with her? He’s heard how they gather around the coffee machine whispering under their breaths about how certain patients were declining in health. Could he ever recover if the subject of their gossip were to become his daughter?

Seeing you come from the nicu everyday a sad smile on your face knowing you’d have to wait until tomorrow to see her again. He couldn’t even bring himself to see her after she was born and he felt like shit because of it, he’d seen her from across the room after you went into labor but that was really it.

Slowly say by day, your crying died down which Shirabu was thankful for, assuming it meant she was doing better. Any free time you’d had was spent telling him about all the little things she’d done during your visit and how they were preparing for her to go home soon!

“Shirabu?” He hears you call tiredly as he sits in the living room quickly wiping at his face, “what’s wrong?” You ask seeing him wipe at his face.

“I just feel like it’s my fault” he breaks down at the question, you quickly move over wrapping your arms around him as he cries into your shoulder.

“Listen, Kenjiro I felt like that at first too, but I talked with the nurse and she said it’s normal to feel that way when this happens but it’s important to know that there wasn’t a thing either of us could have done to prevent it.” He looks up at you with watery eyes as he nods.

“Besides, she’s ok now, they told me she’s going to come home soon as well.”

And you were right, after a few more days, the two of you were leaving the hospital with your little girl, Shirabu didn’t really know how to react, when he’d seen the nurse holding her he wanted to sob, she looked so much different from when he’d seen her in the delivery room, she looked healthier. Maybe that’s what he was scared of seeing her and she’d been worse than before.

After getting through all the paperwork and getting home he was hurrying to set her car seat down asking you if he could hold her.

“She’s your baby to you know” you tell him looking up as you unbuckle her lifting her gently before handing her over.

“Yea…of course I knew that” he replies but it doesn’t have his usual bitter bite to it, it’s softer almost a whisper full of emotions.

If anyone has more experience with the nicu and knows that something is particular wrong(I tried not to be too detailed to avoid this!) pls let me know so I can fix it!!

Anyways let me know if you guys want me to write anything else because I love writing requests!

#anons #tw: nicu #tw premature birth #tw: premature baby #reader insert #x reader #haikyuu #haikyuu!! #haikyu x reader #haikyuu parents #haikyuu dads #mom!reader #dad!shirabu #shirabu x reader #shirabu fluff

[latoyasamantha]

Sacred Geometry

This weekend I had the biggest, best full-circle moment with my son, Levi.  When I was a kid and my parents split up, there was a period where I didn’t see my dad at all. I don’t remember this time because I was between two and three years old. My big brothers remember a time when my parents lived together. I don’t. My memory only lets me go back to a point where I was probably about four. At…

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#omg overcoming overcomingmomguilt momguilt guilt mom momlife momming lssmith nicu nicumom nicugrad

[kyunsies]

hi guys im SO SORRY i’m babysitting this 4 mo old and i thought she was going to be an angel but GOD she needs constant attention she is so bad at self soothing and only NOW was i able to get her to sleep ;______;

#mädch rambles #i haven't been on bc of this AND the mom is working virtually from home so i feel disrespectful if she sees me on my phone sldjf #she almost woke up as im typing this god DAMMIT LOL the dog made a loud noise ;____; #listen i love infants hell ill be working in the NICU but god this bub is just so ... bad for me today lsdfj #oh well #gonna try and catch up ;_____;

[sexylexihasablog]

Emme's Birth Story

Emme’s Birth Story

Emersyn Quinn Bendickson 2.26.22 17:38 at VCU Hospital in Richmond, VA 3lb 14oz 17in The morning of February 26, 2022 started like any other. I rolled my little pregnant belly out of bed, it was a Saturday and still pretty early so I didn’t need to wake the big kids up. I sat on the edge of the bed rubbing my bare belly and telling Erich, “23 more days until we meet Emersyn.” We already had…

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#Babies #baby #birth #birth story #Family #Kids #labor and delivery #Love #Mom #nicu #placental abruption #preemie #premature babies #vcu hospital

[roseband]

now the mom groups are spreading that "if they find out your baby has defects they'll make you abort" crap again and lies lies lies lies

i know most families don't have pictures of their cute little triplet cousins where one was photoshopped in for the newborn photo cuz she was immediately rushed to the high risk NICU after C-section when the other two were mostly fine and then lived in the hospital for over a year after she had her feeding tubes put in at birth (we obviously all visited her constantly lol like she was never without family members)

but jfc my cousin had a major organ defect. she was missing a valve in her esophagus and it wasn't connected to her stomach. they needed to know with ultrasounds in utero so that she didn't immediately die at birth. now she's a fairly normal teenager after three surgeries and unless people either notice her scars in the summer or she tells them (or she downs like a dozen antacids after eating 10x the pineapple she's allowed lol) people can't tell

telling people that doctors will abort their babies if they get ultrasounds is EVIL and will actually kill babies that were wanted and could be alive with modern medicine

#personal #these people are living in a deranged fantasy land of JESUS #4/5 of the kids in my gen on my moms side were nicu babies including me....two of the triplets but only one was in long term #my oldest cousin whos in college now...and me (cuz i plopped out just over 6 weeks early and then stopped breathing oof) #(well i didn't plop out i was induced cuz w/o induction both my mom and i would be DEAD.... #some of these religious nutjobs want to end induction too cuz JESUS and like my mommy and i would be DEAD as #of 1995 (im supposed to be a '96er lol) we'd have both DIED) #i KNOW my family health experiences arent the norm but FUCK have empathy and realize shit can happen to you too holy fuck

[aalt-ctrl-del]

The HIPPA thing for women is scary as fuck too. I see a lot of posts encouraging those with periods to delete tracking apps (had no idea this was a thing). And it reminds me of the one texas women last year who was prosecuted for “murder” because she had a miscarriage and sought medical aid for a related issue.

Sometimes material needs to be removed, or antibiotics for reabsorption if something minor has gone septic - for ref why some people - especially texas woman - would need medical aid after a natural miscarriage.

Right now the data for period tracking (I don’t know how this works so bear with me) can be used to incriminate women of a potential miscarriage. Irregular periods or missed periods in hormonal issues, may be used or viewed as potential homicide in red states.

And that is the whole privacy issue. The fact that red states will seek prosecution of any woman for a missed blood cycle, because the body works perfectly and obviously people with uteruses will use contraceptives and day after pills to murder children. The state will basically be scrutinizing data that should be private, and especially whatever medical history a person with a period has with the doctor, in the event the body yeets genetic material. Or not.

Since the red states and all elected officials failed biology, the purest belief is that all wanted pregnancies and all periods work PERFECTLY, and miscarriages never happen, and all women GLOW during the full 9 month period. As well, all wanted children born premature at 4 months come out of the womb perfectly formed, and can go home within a week.

But heaven forbid you have an irregular cycle, you wich. You’re killing babies with your lack of after marriage passionate hugging. Put that clown car to work.

#roe v wade #roe versus wade #roe vr wade #zygotes still be creepy as all hell #premature babies #actually in some states IT DOES depend on socioeconomic status on whether or not a premature baby born at 4-5 months will survive #because insurance #so dont be (if it screams and cries its a baby) #doctors dont care #they're not putting that in the nicu unit #yeh good doctors will have no borders but not all doctors are ethical or hippa friendly #and if your body does a fucking baby yeet at 4-5 months and the doctor cant save the baby (or cant be fucking bothered) #then mom gets investigated #because how tf dare you not carry to term you winch #and dont be (oh that won't happen because doctors and science and logic) grow tf up #a teacher in texas was going to be prosecuted for not shutting a fucking door #but a dozen and ten cops standing around in larp gear not storming a classroom to save kiddos #chef kiss

[animeroz]

Living without you is absolute torture and I wake up every day trying to come to terms with the fact that, for my entire life, I’ll never hold you again

#infant loss #car accident #nicu #winter driving #greiving #angel baby #boy mom

[parentingseeds]

Bonding with Your Preemie: Tips for Parent-Infant Connection in the NICU

#NICU #mothers #families #nicu nurse #motherhood #moms #mom life #hospital #preemie #newborn #parenting #parentingseeds #momlife #babies #children #parenthood #mental health #moms of tumblr #child development #parents #mom advice #mom talk #womanhood

[vs-griffin]

Pregnancy Rox: The Finale

Postpartum Update Howdy Folks! It has been a wild 4 months since my last post. So here’s the tea… If I recall correctly, the last time I posted was a few days before my emergency c-section. Listen, I already know what you’re thinking… I just KNEW I was going to make it to 34 weeks gestation. However, my little sweet face decided that she wanted to be the first of my children to wish me a happy…

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#33 weeks gestation #34 weeks pregnant #breastfeeding challenges #c-section recovery #c-section scarring #emergency c-section #geriatric pregnancy #NICU #NICU baby #postpartum recovery #pre eclampsia #pregnancy #pregnancy Rox #premature birth #single mom life #strong-women

[ginontherox]

Pregnancy Rox: The Finale

Postpartum Update Howdy Folks! It has been a wild 4 months since my last post. So here’s the tea… If I recall correctly, the last time I posted was a few days before my emergency c-section. Listen, I already know what you’re thinking… I just KNEW I was going to make it to 34 weeks gestation. However, my little sweet face decided that she wanted to be the first of my children to wish me a happy…

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#33 weeks gestation #34 weeks pregnant #breastfeeding challenges #c-section recovery #c-section scarring #emergency c-section #geriatric pregnancy #NICU #NICU baby #postpartum recovery #pre eclampsia #pregnancy #pregnancy Rox #premature birth #single mom life #strong-women

[lexa-griffins]

No to that tragic older moms au headcanon

Im not gonna do it, i just thinking about it 🤪

Unless.......... nah!

Hmmm 👀

#letter opened #heda-in-the-clouds #au: older moms #its all jokes 🤪 #or is it? 👀 #anskdmdod #nah at most i think one od twins is gonna spend a week in the nicu since they are a month earlier #mostly just to make sure everything is fine #the angst just comes from this being the first time one of their babies cant come home straight away #they are so happy when they come home ☺️ #until they realize they now have 2 newborns to take care off fhxhfzfjsfj