Love, Kirsten

“Dear NICU Mama, practicing gratitude in a season of grief can look like drawing perpendicular lines. 

The NICU is a space where grief is intimately known. The grief of not being able to stay pregnant as long as you’d wanted to, the grief of a medically complex future, the grief and loss of golden hour or those first moments of touch. The NICU is also a space of tender moments. Of first snuggles, first baths, first bottles, shared laughs with nurses, and immense love within four walls.

Your grief and gratitude on this journey intersect like perpendicular lines. Meeting, and then parting. Some days are more gratitude than grief, other days the grief can seem to drown out the gratitude. I hope you give yourself permission to fully feel your grief and gratitude without guilt. Your experience and emotions are valid and meaningful. Most of all, I hope that you remember that in the midst of the grief the NICU brings, there is beauty waiting to be found.”

Love,
Kirsten

More of Kirsten + Luke + Evelina’s NICU Story:

“I delivered my twins Luka and Evelina at 27+4 due to a placental abruption. We spent three difficult and exhausting months in the NICU. My twins turn 2 next week! We are beyond thankful for their life and health. I love Dear NICU Mama and the community it has given me as I walk this healing journey of life post NICU.”