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Local nonprofit Mama, I See You brings comfort to NICU moms

Colorado Springs Gazette·April Borjon·22 days ago
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Sounds of wet, choking gasps replace what should be a newborn baby’s typical cry. As nurses move quickly around the room, their footsteps squeak as they rush across the hospital floor. Monitors beep steadily while doctors issue hurried instructions, and the energy begins to shift with each passing second. In the middle of it all, 30-year-old Stephanie Price watches as doctors work to revive the second boy of the twin set she just delivered. After struggling with low blood sugar, aspiration and a dropping heart rate, the seventh addition to Price’s family is rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit. Turning what should have been a celebration into the start of an exhausting journey, Price travels between her own hospital bed and the NICU unit for 10 days.  Attempting to recover from childbirth while living out of a small bag, she relies on thin hospital socks and low-quality toiletries to get her through long days and even longer nights.…

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