re: How one mom's extraordinary love transforms the short lives of hospice babies

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"many step away..."????
the frick does that mean?
where are these children's parents?

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One of my kids spent 5 weeks in the NICU. It is one of the most depressing places in the world. There are plenty of women who take care of themselves/babies and people who want to raise their children, but you also see/hear some of the worst shite you can possibly imagine. Babies crying 23 out of 24 hours a day due to drug withdrawals from their time in the womb. Babies whose "mothers" leave with falsified contact information and never come back.

One of the ladies who worked the desk in the NICU - an administrative position, not a nurse - told us that in her first month on the job she was asked to clean an incubator after an infant had recently passed and ended up crying herself to sleep that night. Most of the nurses that spent any significant time in the NICU were very rough around the edges, so to speak, and I don't blame them. They only way you can keep coming back is if you're just desensitized to that kind of thing. It definitely has a serious effect on how you approach your day.