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Do I Want To Know?

December 16, 2012 by melragent 4 Comments

Sam the Anti-Preemie in the bath

Ignorance is bliss. I made it through my six days in trendelenberg and pre-term labor by not knowing the real danger both Sam and I were in.  I knew it was bad, but I intentionally kept myself as far from the details as possible.  When the neonatologist came to talk to Peter about Sam's survival … [Read more...] about Do I Want To Know?

Filed Under: Life at home, Two years to Three years Tagged With: Autism, fear

And so we enter the two year countdown…

August 27, 2012 by melragent Leave a Comment

Sam the Anti-Preemie: The other shoe

Today was the first day of 2nd grade for Irene.  Aside from being an exciting time for us all... it also means we are entering into the "two years ago today" season.  That's right, somehow, Sam's two year birthday is rapidly approaching.  Honestly, I have no idea how that happened. His first … [Read more...] about And so we enter the two year countdown…

Filed Under: Life at home, One year to Two years, Parenting Tagged With: fear, Parenting

I’ve Been Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

May 20, 2012 by melragent 7 Comments

Sam the Anti-Preemie

In the 20 months since Sam was born, we have been really lucky. Yes, he was just 24-weeks when he was born, spent 95 days in the NICU, had heart surgery and eye surgery... but other than a hospitalization for RSV last December, we have had no long term issues to deal with. So it was with great … [Read more...] about I’ve Been Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

Filed Under: Life at home, One year to Two years Tagged With: Autism, development, fear

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