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NICU stay - you never really get over it
Posted By katie allison granju
Michael Silence mentions his own baby’s NICU stay and links to another blogger’s post about her own child’s NICU experience.
Coincidentally, this week marks 10 years since my son, Elliot was in the middle of his own NICU stay at St. Mary’s Hospital. It was truly a life-alteringly frightening experience and one I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
I came away from it with huge respect for the amazing men and women who staff the NICU; the folks at St. Mary’s took such great care of Elliot (and of us - dealing with grief stricken, hormonal, postpartum, frightened new mothers cannot be the easiest thing to do!).
Every time I drive by the hospital at night - it’s in my neighborhood - I look up at the floor where the lights are on in the NICU and think about the parents and babies living there for the moment and hope they all end up as healthy and well as we did.
Jan 10th, 2008
My son was born with a congenital heart defect and spent over a month in NICU… I had already signed all the adoption paperwork but still I went to that hospital and waited for news. His adopted parents were there too but I felt that he was still my child and I needed to be there. It’s awful, in a single word. And like you, God bless the people who do those jobs.
Those feelings and the memories never go away. The sounds, smells, textures and sights are still vivid after 17 years.
It’s been 20 years since my son was in St Mary’s NICU. I can still conjure up the intense anxiety I felt while he was there, the long, sleepless nights spent in a strange bed, trudging up and down the halls every two hours to nurse him, wondering what the outcome of it all would be, playing the ‘what if’ and ‘if only I had …’ game in my head, mourning the loss of a ‘normal’ birth experience. It was the longest 8 days of my life.