Exploring the Great Green Outdoors with Your NICU Baby

Anna Parker David
Nov 7 · 6 min read

Author’s note: This article discusses Post Partum and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and some readers may find it triggering.

My first daughter, Miranda, was born at 26 weeks and 4 days’ gestation in January 2013. She was born nearly a trimester premature because of Preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome, and weighed only 1 lb., 2 ozs. at birth due to Intrauterine Growth Restriction (IUGR).

As a Micropreemie, there were many concerns for her health, including respiratory development, neurological damage in the…

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