Our Meeting with the Hospital Social Worker

The hospital is nice to just send the NICU lactation specialists to us, the Chaplin, the financial aide person, the Parent Networking person, and so on. It is good because parents like us are stunned, in shock, emotional, physically drained, and overwhelmed with information, so it is nice the hospital knows what we need and just takes over bringing the specialists and support teams to take action helping us.

Jeremy met with the hospital Social Worker yesterday. After speaking with us and reading about Eden, she has a family in mind to be a support for us. The family is the same religion and have a daughter (soon to turn one) that was a micro preemie here at St. Luke's NICU. That same day, the husband Ryan called to talked to us. Jeremy talked a long time with Ryan and was given a lot of good advice, information, and inspiration. Ryan and his wife Heidi met with us at the NICU the next day. They even brought us a basket full of goodies and a gift for Eden. What kindness was felt from essentially strangers.

http://www.amazingayla.blogspot.com/ this is her and her twins website too http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/aylazoey

We also met Marilyn, her son is a micro preemie in the room next door to Eden. He was born at 25 weeks and he is on his 89th day in the NICU but things are going well. She comes up from Twin Falls during the week and her husband comes up on the weekends. It was wonderful to talk to her and hear Marilyn and Jackson's story to inspire us and warn us for what may come. Here is Jackson's blog http://www.tarkalsonbaby.blogspot.com/

These long term NICU families are amazing.

Here is another micro preemie website. I don't know the people personally but it was a good website to look at to find more inspiring stories.

http://www.micropreemie.com/