I don't know if you have seen it yet, but there is a new program on Discovery Health called NICU. If you had a baby in the NICU, or if you had a very premature baby, you may want to avoid this program at all costs. I started to watch it, then thought better of it because it was such a harsh reminder of how tiny my perfect babies were.
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2 days ago
Hi Tina,
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to thank you for the card and etsy with Trinstan's name on it. You made my day. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
Tina,
ReplyDeleteI saw the show on the guide and my immediate thought was how traumatizing! My heart aches for anyone who has a baby in the NICU. I've never experienced this myself, but the pain of others who have is forever on my heart.
How thoughtful of you to send Shandrea a necklace to remember Tristan, so sweet.
Hope that you are doing :) Many HUGS
thinking of you and sending hugs...im sure this post will help many of us so thank you xxx
ReplyDeletei cant wait to see shandreas pendant - you are the best xxx love nan
I still can't watch any type of medical show. It just brings me right back to the 25 days that I lived in the ICU with Nate.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I am glad that there is such a show. I hope that everyone sees it so that they know what "us moms" have been through. I like that the idea of this type of "reality show" because so few know our "reality".
Hugs,
Trisha
I couldn't agree with you more Tina. Part of me wants to watch, but then it just brings back all of the memories of 35 days we spent there with MJ. It's so hard, and as happy as I am to see that other people do get their miracles and get to bring their babies home, I just can't watch that knowing that my miracle didn't happen.
ReplyDeleteI have not seen that show. Not sure if I would be able to after having Connor in a NICU. As it is I freaked out and made a friend change the channel fast when this old western movie was on and the bad guys in it tied a mom to a pole then brought her baby out and it looked like they planned to hurt the baby. He changed the channel before it got any further cuz I was freaking out on him to change it fast. But that NICU show will be able to teach people who don't "get" it what parents go through.
ReplyDeleteI watch it. and sob. and get angry. and a host of other emotions. In a way, it is cathartic and in a way, self torture. Peter tells me to "pretend we dont get that channel". I wish I could listen.
ReplyDeleteI watched it and it makes me sad that they are portraying that all babies who spend time in the NICU go home... They also havent had (the ones I have seen) severe cases...
ReplyDeleteI have watched a couple of documentaries about neonatal intensive care units. I find them very difficult to watch but, as some of the comments above have already said, it has helped other people who know me and my girls understand precisely what the NICU environment is like.
ReplyDeleteSophia and Ellie were perfect. When I read this post, the photograph of their little feet popped into my mind. Sweet girls. x
Seriously, I KNOW! I saw the ads for this show and all I could think was WTF!! Maybe the upside of ppl watching this circus act of a show (Im guessing, I dont know how this can be done tastefully) is they will have a fraction of an idea what parents whose children are ill or who have lost babies have been through.
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