For many families situation when their child was born before term and is in intensive care department is a huge stress.
To struggle with this feeling it is better to:
- to cry if it helps
- to allow yourself to cry
- not to be afraid of the feelings
- to let emotions leave
- to make schedule for yourself
- find balance between your time in home, at work and visits to hospital
- try to be calm when you leave hospital
- remember, your child needs you, but your family and other children need you too
- find time to do favorite things it will help you to find necessary energy
- find parents who are in the same situation, share your feelings with them
- share your experience in support group
- specify whether there are parents to whom you can be a support
- try to find a support group in the Internet