For New Preemie Moms (add to the list!)

kck329 · August 2011

Below are a list of resources from members of this board that helped us survive the NICU journey. We hope they are also helpful for you. (I usually post this at the beginning of the month, but we have had a lot of intro posts this week so I thought we should post it now.)

For moms at home-- What are the resources, suggestions, advice, etc that you have for people who are starting their journeys through the NICU? Please add to this list, especially if there are resources you are using now that your preemie is home since we don't have many of those on the list yet.

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BOOKS:

NICU baby books: Boy Version and Girl Version

The Preemie Book https://www.amazon.com/Preemies-Second-Essential-Parents-Premature/dp/1416572325/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310491956&sr=8-1

Daily Journal https://www.amazon.com/Moms-One-Line-Day-Five-Year/dp/0811874907/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1310492204&sr=1-2

PREEMIE SUPPORT GROUPS

Inspire.com to be extremely helpful during my son's NICU stay. They have a great preemie support group.

CLOTHING/PREEMIE PRODUCTS

Naartjie Kids clothing store which carried cute preemie clothes in the store!

https://www.itsapreemiething.com

BREASTFEEDING

There is a group on FB called Breastmilk for Preemies - it can be pretty hippie-tastic, but good info comes up. I snagged this link out of a thread thinking it might help some of us here:

https://thecrunchysideofme.blogspot.com/2011/02/breastmilk-supplyrelactationinduced.html

Kellymom.com

NICU EXPERIENCE RESOURCES

https://www.preemiehelp.com/

https://www.ttmf.org/glossary_a-e.html

https://www.marchofdimes.com/baby/premature_indepth.html

https://www.marchofdimes.com/modpreemie/preemie.html

https://preemiehelp.com/for-preemie-parents-and-carers/parenting-in-the-nicu/learning-about-your-preemie-in-the-nicu/understanding-preemies-body-language

https://www.grahamsfoundation.org/home.html Graham's Foundation! A friend signed me up and they sent me the nicest care package to the hospital.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Pictures of Hope - complimentary NICU photographers https://www.picturesofhopefoundation.org/

HELPFUL BLOGS

Links from a bump preemie mom's blog (kaylaaimee):

Here are my favorite resources for preemie/NICU parents

and here are my fave preemie products

MrsMVM · August 2011

This is wonderful! Thank you so much for this. I can use this to keep me feeling involved until I can get to the hospital with DH. I just can't wait until I can drive. Hopefully after my 2 week pp checkup.

Thank you thank you.

kck329 · August 2011

MrsMVM:
This is wonderful! Thank you so much for this. I can use this to keep me feeling involved until I can get to the hospital with DH. I just can't wait until I can drive. Hopefully after my 2 week pp checkup.

Thank you thank you.

You are very welcome! And much sympathy on the not being able to drive-those weeks were SO hard for me too!

One more resource: https://www.zakeez.com/en/zaky/zaky.php these are great for helping position your LO in the isolette and you can sleep with them so your scent is there for the baby as well. We still use ours!