Often times mothers who have endured high-risk pregnancies feel immense amounts of shame for what their bodies could or could not do in pregnancy and childbirth. It can sometimes feel that from the moment our medical chart was labeled “high-risk”, it also had italicized labels underneath that read, “fragile, incapable, or abnormal.” But NICU mama, your pregnancy is and was anything but. We know this truth can feel impossible to believe when the narratives surrounding birth and pregnancy are…
