You are listening to episode 89, a mother's message. Two mother's experiences having pre-term babies in the NICU.

Welcome to this episode. September is NICU Awareness Month in the United States. And in honor of this,

I wanted to welcome mothers who have had children in the NICU.

You are listening to an episode where I'm talking to mothers who have had pre-term babies in the NICU.

Make sure you listen to the other episode with term babies who have been in the NICU.

This is part of the mother's message series on this podcast, where moms can come on and share their experiences,

which can hopefully help other families and also spread awareness on what they went through.

So I'm welcoming Laura Freeland. Thank you so much for joining me today.

Thank you so much for having me.

So, you know, like I said, I wanted to do the series, which is the mother's message series,

to kind of have mothers on to talk about their experiences.

Because I feel like sometimes other mothers may be going through the same thing and they just want to hear it from someone else.

It may not be the exact same story, but also just to kind of spread awareness about things that maybe people don't realize

from the things that we go through as moms if they haven't gone through the same experience.

So I really want to thank you for being here and I know this is going to be really helpful for so many people who are listening.

Absolutely. Thank you again.

So tell me a little bit about yourself and just a little bit about your story and your, you know, your children's story.

Absolutely. So I am an ex-marketer and poppy writer.

I had a big plans of going back to work after the twins were born.

When I was still pregnant with them and had no idea what was coming, but I'm now a stay-at-home mom.

And I would say still in this firing writer.

So my twins are Vivian and Margot.

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