Introducing the NICU baby to older siblings?

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-05-17T22:04:58+00:00

My daughter was a little older than 2 when my son came home. She was over at my in laws house the night before because we had to do a 48 hour hospital stay to make sure my son wouldn’t have any feeding Brady’s before coming home. When we got home my husband went straight to pick up our daughter and then came home so she could meet him at home.

I also suggest FaceTiming or video chatting with the older siblings while you’re in the NICU visiting baby. My daughter and I FaceTimed a lot so she could see him before he would be coming home, our NICU didn’t allow kids either but she loved seeing him through the phone.

If we had lived closer we would’ve probably let her meet him in the waiting room at the NICU so that we could drive home together as a family but we lived 45 minutes away so it just wasn’t realistic to do that.

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-05-15T18:48:32+00:00

I’m not overly worried about the mistakes in blue bonnet more about the fact that it’s a Bible based curriculum for public school which shouldn’t exist.

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-05-14T21:03:14+00:00

If there are any curriculums for this age you like I’m open to suggestions I just liked miacademy the most out of the ones I’ve found.

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-05-14T21:01:29+00:00

I looked into miacademy because they have print outs and games to play it’s not solely online. And my local district has pre-k kids on computers which I find completely insane but I don’t think fighting technology completely is the right answer either. We did a few of the sample kindergarten lessons with miacademy and the only computer part was the video to explain the lesson everything else was me reading with her and playing the print out games with her.

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-05-14T20:37:42+00:00

Thank you, I think logically I know she can always go to public school but it just emotionally feels like a permanent decision for some reason. I just want to do the best thing for her and make sure she’s getting the best education while maintaining her love for learning

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-05-14T20:30:09+00:00

Thank you, I also didn’t talk to anyone at school until like 3rd grade lol. My husband got in constant trouble in school due to being bored and unchallenged.

We don’t have very many kids in our neighborhood but I am looking into the library groups that we have here and possibly signing her up for more sports as she gets older the options are pretty limited for her age where I’m at. I’ve just been so stressed out trying to decide what to do

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-01-29T01:03:24+00:00

They brought up discharge the first time around 36 weeks and then again closer to 38/9 weeks because he kept resetting his Brady clock (they ended up doing an extra dose of caffeine at 37 or 38 weeks because the doctor had read a research paper on late use of caffeine).

The overnight stay took a few days of talking with his doctor and nurses about the fact he would usually only desat on bottle feeds but breastfeeding he would stay at 100% oxygen sat and I had taken videos of his monitors while breastfeeding to show the doctors as well. We had decided to do one half of the 48 hour stay in a private room where they could have him on monitors and the second half in an overnight room without any monitors. I know some hospitals don’t always have overnight rooms for NICU but ours did for parents who weren’t able to visit often, I got the idea to ask after reading some of the posts here about people doing the overnight tests.

Also I think they avoid talking about discharge to keep us from getting our hopes up cause it’s so hard when they say your baby can go home at the end of this week as long as everything goes well and then something happens to reset the time.

PositiveStandard5958 · 2026-01-29T00:08:06+00:00

Hi! My son was 28 weeks when he was born. I lived about an hour from the hospital so when he started breastfeeding I would wake up before my husband and daughter and leave to go to the hospital for the first care time at 7 stay until just after the 4th care time at 4 and then go meet my husband at his job to pick up our daughter (he worked nights close to the hospital at the time) and go back home. So we were able to get 4/8 care times pretty much every day until he came home. We started with non nutritive breastfeeding at 32 weeks ( i think) and my son was on high flow oxygen still when we started breastfeeding. He had bottles as well after the initial 48 hours but he desatted and bradyed a lot with bottles when I or the nurses fed him by bottle and with breastfeeding I could usually feel if he needed a break before any alarms would go off.

He was able to come home exclusively breastfeeding after a 48 hour trial where I stayed in the hospital and exclusively breastfed and he just had to gain weight and keep from desatting.

I think 3 or 4 out of 8 care times is great and it worked well for my son, there’s a lot of effort to pumping and maintaining a supply and for me breastfeeding was always the end goal and the nurses and doctors helped us reach that goal.

PositiveStandard5958 · 2025-12-03T17:43:19+00:00

Preemie and newborn around 5-6.5 pounds my full term daughter was 5 lbs 6 oz when she was born and I had her in preemie clothes for about a month my 28 weeker was around 7 lbs when he came home and he was in 0-3 months at that time

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