Kristie McNealy, MD

Tonight, I was inspired by an old post by Darcy at Life With My 3 Boybarians, where she discussed some of the struggles her son “Trouble” has endured since coming home from the NICU.  While our daughter’s story isn’t any where near as long or dramatic as Trouble’s, it still irks me when people take [...]

Yesterday, Debbie at Premature Grandmother (and founder of Elliot’s Preemie Tees) wrote a post about the NICU memories she will never forget.  I once again found myself tearing up as I related to so many of the items on her list.  I thought her post was such a great idea, so today, I’m going to [...]

1780g* – that’s how much our little girl weighed when she was born. She was 41cm long.  Why do I know this?  Well it isn’t because I have an odd infatuation with the metric system.  It’s because she spent her first 46 days in the NICU, where weights come in grams, length in centimeters and [...]