Divide and Conquer: Ashley and Adam's Strategy for Managing a Toddler, Twins and a NICU Stay

Perinatal Wellbeing - The Podcast about Prenatal, Pregnancy & Postpartum Health

Content Warning: C-section delivery, NICU stay, delivery during COVID, guilt, anxiety

🎙️Today’s episode is part 2 of Ashley and Adam’s story and their experience of staying in the NICU with one twin. Be sure to listen to last week’s episode where they discussed their journey to parenthood through a fertility journey. Ashley and Adam talk about the difficulty of having one twin in the NICU and one twin being discharged all with a toddler at home. Ashley and Adam continue to share honestly and openly about the impacts on their emotional and mental health throughout this next phase of their parenting journey.

Highlights:

0:55 - One twin had to go to NICU, Adam and Ashley having to divide and conquer

15:30 - Discharged with one baby, other baby transferred to another hospital

30:34 - Bringing baby home

37:57 - Impacts on mental health, Ashley’s experience with anxiety

49:23 - Adam’s experience with guilt in the postpartum period

1:04:31 - How does this experience continue to impact you in the present day?

Resources mentioned in this episode:
You can find Ashley and Adam on Instagram @ajherridge @adam.mets

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