Sam the Anti-Preemie

I’ve Been Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop

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 … [Read More...]

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Sam the Anti=Preemie Therapy Fund

The Therapy Fund | Vol. 2

In honor of Peter, Sam and myself.... The past few months with Sam have been hard. I have written a few times about the troubles we have had with getting Sam to sleep and keeping him asleep. Things really came to a head two weeks ago when Sam started taking two hours of rocking each night to … [Read More...]

Sam the Anti-Preemie Therapy Fund

The Therapy Fund | Vol. 1

Introducing a new category of posts... This one focuses on what parenting lapse occurred this week to cause me to add money to the Therapy Fund jar.  The jar is not earmarked for any one particular family member, because at the rate we are going, all of us will need therapy every now and … [Read More...]

Sam the Anti-Preemie Reading before bed

The Witching Hour(s)

I had it easy with my first kid.  At 3 months old, Irene slept through the night.  Now, she goes to bed early and wakes up at a reasonable time.  Sam, on the other hand, is not so easy.  For a little while there, it looked like we were going to luck out and have two perfect angels when it came … [Read More...]