When you have a preemie, you want all issues fixed NOW! You have no patience left. Anemia of Prematurity is one of those issues, you go...

I have never received blood transfusion in my life. Idea of my 14 days old baby getting blood from a stranger was devastating for me....

In the first few weeks of life, D. had numerous blood tests. In the first few critical days they would take her blood daily. After a few...

Increasing milk intake & gradually weaning off the IV fluid is one of the major milestones for a preemie. The first few days, Dora was...

“Research show that kangaroo care provides substantial benefit for babies. Medical benefits of skin-to-skin touch for preemies were...

My Milk Production / Breast Pumping Journey A few weeks before my delivery, my Kindle order had arrived. First thing I downloaded was...

Formula introduction in NICU was not really a decision I made. It was rather a decision made by doctors. However, keeping formula as a...

Finally. I had been looking forward to this day the most. Even more so than the discharge day. Writing about it months later still gives...

DAY 41! After 41 days of no clothing, D. was dressed in a super cute onesie by the nurses. I was told by the nurses a few times that if I...

When we got discharged D. was exactly 36 weeks old. Her age was not an indicator alone for the discharge decision though. Here is the...

On the discharge day, a pediatric physiotherapist visited us in NICU to initiate the physiotherapy process. She checked D.'s head for...

I did and I did not… D., like other preemies in the NICU, had a huge file with scan reports, progress papers, medicines used, and growth...