Okay, so I am a delinquent blogger once again. I know I promised to stay on top of things because when I get behind I just can’t catch up and I know that I will forget to mention something cool that happened. Oh well, can’t be super mom all the time. Cape is in the [...]

Kids can fall asleep anywhere. I don’t know how they do it, but it sure is cute when they do.

Little Miss Kassie knows what she wants. This has become a source of frustration for us both. She knows what she wants and wants nothings else once her mind has been set on something.
Problem: she is not mobile and gets frustrated because she can not always get what she wants and she is not verbal [...]

Lena and I finally came home from the hospital, after another emergency surgery, on Monday October 1st. My little one had to have another emergency surgery on Sunday afternoon to correct the placement of the shunt tubing. When I last wrote I mentioned that she was having more trouble recovering from this surgery than the [...]

Today it has been a whole month that Korrina and Lena have been in the hospital, living in their little *8 x 8 cell* as Korrina calls it.
Lena’s white cell count is still way too high.  The doctors are wondering if the injections of antibiotics through her drainage may be causing the white blood cell [...]

Through our blog we have developed some online friendships, and have gained and given a lot of support and encouragement to others out there who are on the preemie journey along with us. Keeping this journal of my girls’ progress and development, and sharing my feelings, through the good times and the hard times, is [...]

For those of you who have found this page through a search for information on a preemie in your life, welcome. I have been where you are and I understand your pain. I’ve been there. For those of you who are here out of curiosity, read on, you never know when you or someone close [...]

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A belated Happy Mother’s Day to all the Preemies Moms out there. These occasions seem all that much more special.
How Preemie Moms are Chosen
(Adapted From Erma Bombeck)
Most women become mothers by accident, some by choice,
a few by social pressure and a couple by habit.
This year more than 500 000 women in Canada and the United [...]