S4 EP 17 | Jules Part 1 | Juliana's Early Delivery + NICU Journey

On this week's episode, we have the honor of sharing part 1 of Jules' motherhood journey with her daughter Juliana. Jules and her husband tried for 10 yrs to conceive a child, and on their last fertility treatment they became pregnant! At 21 weeks we found out that we were expecting a baby girl.

When Jules was 25 weeks pregnant, her and her husband were hit in a head-on collision by a driver who fell asleep at the wheel. After a one hour ambulance ride and close monitoring at the hospital, they discovered that her placenta had abrupted 70 percent from the impact of the crash. Juliana was delivered 12 hours after the accident via emergency c-section.

When Juliana was 3 days old, an ultrasound confirmed she sustained a grade 4 brain hemorrhage, and at 8 weeks old (33 weeks) she developed hydrocephalus. Juliana received a
life-saving brain surgery to place a shunt and was critical for 72 hours after her surgery. Throughout her NICU stay, she continued to pull through as the fighter that she is and came home after 105 days in the NICU!

We hope that this episode affirms any NICU mama listening that no matter how close or far away you are from your NICU journey, that healing is lifelong. You are worthy of the time it takes to heal.

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