S6 E13 | Navigating & Posting Pregnancy Announcements on Social Media after NICU Roundtable
This week’s podcast episode is a roundtable episode with two of our editorial team members, Keely and Savannah! And this week we are talking all about navigating and posting pregnancy announcements on social media after the NICU.
Depending on where you are in your healing journey, social media can sometimes be a joyful and wonderful place to engage, and other times it can invoke feelings of jealousy or longing for the experiences of motherhood that you may have always envisioned. Throughout this episode, they each share not only how they use and process social media in new ways after their NICU journeys and in different seasons of their healing, but also how they use social media in a compassionate way today. We hope that this episode gives you permission to honor your heart and what it is capable of holding in this season of your life!
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Keely
“Our NICU journey started when our second child was born at 33 weeks. Ten weeks prior, I had gone into labor with no known cause. They were able to stop the contractions and we were sent home. Then at 33 weeks, when preterm labor started again, they weren’t able to stop it. We spent 19 days in the NICU. From billy lights and pulled out feeding tubes to kangaroo care that took an entire team to put him on my chest - it is a journey that changed my whole life. It brought trauma that I am healing from but it also grew my capacity for giving and receiving grace, compassion, and empathy.”
Savannah
“Griffin was born at 40+1 on November 20, 2021 after 30 minutes of pushing and almost 40 hours of induced labor. He required both resuscitation and intubation as he was not breathing. He underwent hypothermic cooling therapy and was diagnosed with moderate to severe HIE. Faced with a high likelihood of severe brain injury, Griffin was then re-warmed after 72 hours and went on to spend 12 days in the NICU. Despite his MRIs and all subsequent testing showing no evidence of brain damage during his stay, due to the nature of his wait-and-see prognosis, Griffin was voluntarily enrolled in early intervention at 3 months old where he consistently soared beyond his expected developmental milestones. He ultimately took his first steps before 9 months old, and at 12 months, Griffin closed the chapter on his painful start when he was cleared from all follow-up care regarding his original diagnosis of HIE.“
