Editor’s note: I’m pleased to introduce this guest post by Rachael from Simply Preemie, who writes powerfully about her experience of NICU following her son’s premature birth, and how she’s gone on to create a dedicated clothing brand for preemies.
Theo was born at 28 weeks and 4 days, weighing 600 grams.
If you don’t know what 600 grams looks like, it’s less than a bag of sugar. His skin was red and raw looking, he couldn’t breathe on his own and within days of being born, his bowel perforated. What followed was a life-threatening emergency, an ambulance transfer to a specialist children’s hospital and a surgery that his surgeons didn’t think he would survive.