02/09/2025
💜 NICU moms and babies hold a special place in my heart!
September 2017, I was a NICU Mom. Emergency C-Section due to pre-eclampsia at 32 weeks and my boy weighing 1.8kgs 💕
He will be 8 years old in a few days. My 1st Miracle 💜
3 years later I found myself back in the NICU, had a placenta rupture due to pre-eclampsia again and spent by days roaming the halls of the NICU with my 2nd Miracle Baby 💜
💜 September is NICU awareness month 💜
The NICU is so often thought of as just a place for sick or premature babies… but it’s truly so much more than that.
It’s a place where some of life’s biggest battles are fought in the tiniest bodies, and where some of the most powerful victories are won. It’s where babies learn their first skills: how to breathe on their own, how to stay warm without an incubator, how to coordinate something as simple (but so complex) as sucking, swallowing, and breathing all at once. Every little milestone is celebrated as a miracle.
It’s also a place for families. Parents experience some of the most tender moments here… holding their baby for the very first time, skin-to-skin contact, hearing a cry without machines helping, or watching their baby finally take a full feed. The NICU becomes a classroom too… where moms and dads learn about their baby’s cues, where lactation is supported in even the most fragile circumstances, and where parents discover strength and resilience they never knew they had.
And behind every isolette is a team: nurses, doctors, respiratory therapists, lactation counselors, social workers, chaplains, and more… working together to not just keep babies alive, but to help them thrive.
The NICU is not just intensive care.
It’s a place of healing.
A place of growth.
A place of resilience, hope, and love. ✨
To every parent walking those halls, and to every parent who once did:
Your strength is seen.
Your love is louder than the beeps.
And your story is forever a part of what makes the NICU a place of miracles.
September is NICU Awareness Month. We honor you, we stand with you, we remember with you. 💜
