Our social worker at the hospital shared this with us and we thought you might appreciate it as well. These are a series of articles by the San Francisco Chronicle about the parents of a preemie baby named Louie. This article is over 10 years old but it speaks very well to the struggles of the NICU.
While Louie had many more challenges than we hope Zachary will endure, this provides a window into the experience of preemie parents. We have reason to hope and expect that Zachary's prognosis is much brighter, partly due to the advances in medicine in the past 10 years and his progress so far, and partly due to the fact that the baby in the story had almost every possible complication for premature babies.
It is a series of four articles, the first is here:
Louie's Struggle- Part One
Part Two- A Lonely Vigil
Part Three- A Lesson from Louie (can't locate this online)
Part Four- There's No Place Like Home
One Year Later: Gaining Ground
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