What You Should Know If You Have a Preterm Baby
If you have just had a preterm baby, welcome. Welcome to the exclusive club you never wanted to join. I welcome you because you…
Lucy Williams isn’t a writer or anything cool like that. She is a nerdy Data Analyst who enjoys spreadsheets and databases and hopes to one day make use of her Masters in Library Science. She is mommy to Emrys, her 2 ½ lb 28 weeker who is now too heavy to carry down the street. Her hubby Richard hails from Wales (not Whales) and is the rock she leaned on during not only a premature baby but the surgery that followed during which the doctors removed a 3 lb benign tumor. Poor Emrys was the messenger that saved his mommy from her hibernoma, a rare tumor of the brown fat in her abdominal cavity. This is the fat we all have to keep us warm as babies, but in Lucy it turned out to be the thing that put her baby in harm’s way (oh, the irony!) She now volunteers to supports parents who have babies in the NICU in her spare time and occasionally enjoys a glass of wine or a good dystopia novel.
If you have just had a preterm baby, welcome. Welcome to the exclusive club you never wanted to join. I welcome you because you…