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Earthy and Expecting: Discharge day!

On Jan. 23, Jax was discharged after 87 days in the York Hospital NICU.

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Earthy and Expecting: Rooming in with Jax — check

When NICU babies are stable and nearing discharge, parents are invited to “room in” a night or two with their preemie.

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Earthy and Expecting: NICU wonderland, where down is up and wrong is right

Last week, I wrote about survival mode, the auto-pilot that kicks on when life serves up trauma. Survival mode, it turns out, can be a kind of ignorant bliss. Worrying about nothing outside of the bubble of basic needs and … Continue reading

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