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    Top 5 Tips For NICU Dads

    June 20, 2022 /

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    Alex Zavala

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    Facing my NICU reality

    May 23, 2019

    How to Survive the First 72 Hours of NICU…as a NICU Dad

    January 19, 2019

    Going back to work after the NICU

    August 11, 2018
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    What about dads? Life after the NICU

    January 7, 2021 /

    A few months back I was asked by Bryana Salazar to be a part of a study she was doing. I jumped at the chance when I found out the study was exploring the needs of NICU fathers and their experiences after discharge. 32 NICU fathers participated in this study to help us learn more about the NICU experience and the transition home. Please take a look at her study here: https://spark.adobe.com/page/wR523tLe542qn/#theme-5 Here is what she found. Theme 1: Dads and Healthcare Providers Interacting with healthcare providers while your child is in the NICU and beyond can be intimidating. Theme 2: Adjusting Expectations For some fathers, the transition is difficult…

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    Alex Zavala

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    When time stands still…

    July 9, 2019

    Happy Homecoming Day!

    August 17, 2024

    We love our Neonatal Nurses!

    September 15, 2018
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    NICU Birthday

    July 22, 2020 /

    A NICU stay is definitely a life changing experience. The hell we are put through and the gratefulness of how blessed we are, we carry them forever.

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    Alex Zavala

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    What about NICU Grandparents?

    July 3, 2018

    Ronald McDonald House Charities

    October 2, 2018

    My Story. How it all began.

    March 3, 2018
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    When time stands still…

    July 9, 2019 /

    After making the drive from hell where you are begging God to spare your wife and your baby, I came running in asking where my wife has been taken. I run to labor and delivery and open the door to a room and couldn't believe what I was seeing.

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    Alex Zavala

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    That yearly reminder…

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    Kangaroo Care, get in there Dads!

    May 22, 2018

    Ronald McDonald House Charities

    October 2, 2018
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    Facing my NICU reality

    May 23, 2019 /

    I think from the very first day of going into the NICU I lived in a state of denial. Even after processing and accepting some of the reality of where we were, I was still in denial of what my expectations should have been for everything.

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    Alex Zavala

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    We love our Neonatal Nurses!

    September 15, 2018

    My NICU Journey…67 Days in the NICU

    March 22, 2018

    10 things I wish I would have known as a new NICU Dad…

    March 9, 2018
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    How to Survive the First 72 Hours of NICU…as a NICU Dad

    January 19, 2019 /

    A while back I was asked to host a NICU Dads Group at our local Children’s Hospital’s NICU. I thought it was a great idea and immediately jumped online to start researching some topics or just get some information that I could share with some fellow NICU Dads. I looked and looked, and found nothing. Well, maybe nothing is a slight exaggeration. All I found was an article here and there in sites that were for NICU moms. There was nothing out there for NICU Dads. Then I came across Rad White and The NICU Beard Club. Rad had also written a book for NICU Dads, Enter The NICU. I was…

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    Alex Zavala

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    Happy Homecoming Day!

    August 17, 2024

    Happy Parents of Preemies Day!

    May 7, 2018

    We love our Neonatal Nurses!

    September 15, 2018
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    Ronald McDonald House Charities

    October 2, 2018 /

     On June 10, 2013 my wife and I both went to work on what seemed like a normal Monday morning. She was 27 weeks pregnant. It was the first day of summer vacation for our oldest daughter, who had just turned 9 the week before. Everything was fine, until my wife called around 9 a.m., hysterical. Her water broke, and an ambulance was on its way to take her to the hospital. I was almost 45 minutes away, but made it to the hospital in about 15 minutes. Our world was turned upside down. We were informed that the baby was breach and we would have to have an…

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    Alex Zavala

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    Going back to work after the NICU

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    Kangaroo Care, get in there Dads!

    May 22, 2018

    When time stands still…

    July 9, 2019
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    We love our Neonatal Nurses!

    September 15, 2018 /

    There is a special bond between neonatal nurses and families with babies in the NICU. If I were to explain this to new NICU dads I would start by telling them about our experience and sharing how NICU nurses become more than just caretakers of your baby. They were one of our main support groups during our NICU stay. There were so many intimate moments that were shared with our NICU nurses, some good and some bad. From the very first day that I walked into the NICU and saw our tiny baby in her iscolet, with all those tubes, I cried. It was one of our NICU nurses who…

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    Alex Zavala

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