NICU Grief

The Beginning of Her Story

Told by: Kelly I’m 37. I have four living children ages 10, 8, 6, and 3. All of their pregnancies/deliveries were peaceful and uneventful for

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Our Angel Prince David

Told by: Giselle Oct. 31, 2011 – Dec. 19th, 2011 My husband, David and I, had been married for almost 4 years, since October 19th, 2007

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Family Ties that Bind

Told by: Krysten My maternal Great grandmother lost a young toddler to Polio My other Maternal Great grandmother suffered several miscarriages in silence My maternal

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Back to the Beginning

Told by: Sarah I had a very traumatic birth experience.  It was everything opposite of what I had imagined and planned. I planned a natural,

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Hurricane Sandy vs. NICU

At New York University Tisch Hospital, the backup generator failed, as the storm called Hurricane Sandy hit. This lower Manhattan hospital was quickly lined outside with ambulances,

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES
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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
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