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After the NICU
For parents with babies who must spend time in the NICU, it can feel overwhelming. It can be especially hard for parents of micro preemies – babies born at less than 28 weeks.
When author Amy Marchand Collins’ twins were born at just 24 weeks, she described the experience as feeling like she was “taken out on a boat, miles offshore, and pushed off to learn how to swim.”
If you have or love a preemie, After the NICU is for you.
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Amy Marchand Collins
disability rights advocate, special needs mama bear, knitting a world more just and fair.
About Amy
Amy Marchand Collins built a career providing guidance, encouragement, and peer support to families like hers as a Certified Community Health Worker.
She pioneered the role of Neonatal Follow-Up Clinic Parent Consultant at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, RI.
She has a BA and an MBA and lives in Johnston, RI.
My Books
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Blog and News
God’s Waiting Room
October 9, 2017 Scene: The lights come up revealing a sparsely furnished inner office separated from a larger waiting room outside, such as you might find in any medical clinic or law office. A quiet tap on the door. The bearded man looks up from his desk, peering…
Light-Flinging
Light-Flinging Wouldn’t it be fun If instead of mud-slinging, People and politics were more about light-flinging? What needs to seen? What’s there to be healed? Instead of lobbing bombs or bullets or barbed words that cut deep We could shine the light of…
My Heart’s Lessons
“There is nothing wrong with your [my] heart.” After some vague but scary symptoms set off two months of increasingly invasive tests that culminated in a cardiac catheterization procedure on the morning of New Year’s Eve, hearing that sentence was welcome news. I took…