tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2725999327180398620.post1707118333491083246..comments2023-04-10T00:47:45.495-07:00Comments on Trapped Under a Milk Dud: What it's like to have a preemieUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2725999327180398620.post-44265997541649464472011-04-07T17:47:16.330-07:002011-04-07T17:47:16.330-07:00thank you for sharing, Alyssa! Archer's stay w...thank you for sharing, Alyssa! Archer's stay was much more brief than either Squirty's or Kal's but still terrifying for me. I tend to worry much more about him because of it, even though he was full term.Jaime Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05006532809474789469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2725999327180398620.post-79862497544670854902011-04-07T06:29:59.968-07:002011-04-07T06:29:59.968-07:00I totally understand where u are coming from here!...I totally understand where u are coming from here! I too did not get to hold my first baby immediately after birth. I too spent 2 weeks visiting my first baby at the NICU for 2 weeks, and obsessively worried about that 5lb baby with reflux that wouldnt nurse from me, and spit up half his bottles of formula....<br /><br />Kal did not have any problems like aheart murmur or brain hemmorage or anything, but I still had someone coming to the house on occasion checkin up on his development. It got to the point though where he was meeting all of the expectations and they left me alone.... lol. <br /><br />Even the pediatrician treated him like a regular full term infant tho... At his 15 month he wasnt saying a whole lot but he WAS talking. Because he was not saying the 15 or more words that he SHOULD have been at 15 months, my pedi made me feel about the size of an ant in my parenting skills (as if I never talked to him or read to him and THAT was why he wasnt talking much, not that he was born almost 2 months early). His GROSS motor skills were never really delayed by that much, just the language took closer to 18-24 months to start kicking in.<br /><br />NOW though, he speaks in FULL sentences, recognizes colors, most of his letters and even some numbers, and can count to 20. No one would even suspect that he was born 6 weeks too soon.Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02274858175275704943noreply@blogger.com