Theme: Bereavement: The Grief Experience

Advice to the mom that I was with my baby in the NICU: “I would say to give myself more grace.”

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Advice to the mom that I was with my baby in the NICU: “I would say to give myself more grace.”

A mom whose daughter spent her 5-months in the NICU acknowledges how helpless and useless parents can feel and how hard on themselves they can be. “I went into a negative headspace. I pretty much talked myself out of being a mom.”

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Theme: Bereavement: The Grief Experience

Advice to the mom that I was with my baby in the NICU: “I would say to give myself more grace.”

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