Anna Baniel, theater director and poet. Mother of two premature babies, today healthy and happy children. This bodyguard manages the first days with premature babies, all so small. This says a lot about how fragile it is to touch, not to move

Prologue: A spring Saturday morning, voices are heard from Ofri's room: "Mom, Dad..." I go to the room, open the door, and before my eyes I see my cute girl stretching out in her bed,

I'm going to be Pegit's father! This realization slowly crept from the subconscious to the conscious. It happened somewhere in mid-October 2007, in the 25th week of pregnancy, when at a check-up with the gynecologist

"Why doesn't he have eyebrows?" was the first question Eviatar, the three-and-a-half-year-old eldest brother, asked when we finally brought Yoav home after five weeks of being late. Two months since my water broke.

My eldest grandson, Dvir, was born at Schneider Hospital exactly 20 years ago. It was on a Thursday morning. My daughter was rushed to the hospital after the attending physician diagnosed “preeclampsia.” Five minutes later

You decide to bring a child into the world alone, you decide to dedicate your whole being to something that has not yet been created, you look at the little toddlers running after their mothers and promise yourself that next year you will have one too.

My little prince… We waited and expected you for 4 years, 4 years of prayers and requests until the long-awaited pregnancy arrived and more naturally. What joy we had, a real miracle, who would have believed it!!!

In honor of Premature Baby Week, I am also sending you my life story, a story about a preemie and a great miracle. Premature Baby Awareness Month… So yes, we too became parents of a preemie a year ago. This

I don't usually write. But this year I feel like I have to. 6 years have passed since my Jonathan (or as I call him – Jonathan Haim of Mom ???? ) was born.

Week 29, Saturday night, after a shower, the water started dripping, without a doubt it was water… I call my mom, change clothes, grab a towel and run to the maternity ward, wait until they admit us, they explain to us that there is no

By Sagit Harel. At 28 weeks, the doctor noticed a slowdown in growth, at 30 weeks I was sent to the emergency room and hospitalized. After a silent monitor I was sent to the delivery room for the night, where she kindly allowed me to give a few kicks

My story begins more than 18 years ago, but only today do I have the courage to tell it because only now do I realize that by sharing this, I am actually strengthening other people who are in the same situation.

"I will have a natural birth, with a private midwife, in a natural birthing room!!" Everyone already knew, because I had bothered to proudly tell everyone." And I already knew, right after the birth, the midwife would lay my chubby baby down

For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to be a mother. It really burned in me. It took a while to find the right groom, but when it did, we got married quickly and I immediately got pregnant. I was so

It was a normal day, Thursday afternoon, January 15, 2015. You've been in my belly for 30 weeks and one more day 🙂 The day before yesterday I was at the doctor's who checked you and me and said everything was fine.

In honor of November, which is Premature Birth Awareness Month, I decided to tell about my own premature baby and his birth. Pregnancy with Ohad was a bit challenging: Clexane injections every morning. I felt unwell

One of the biggest fears of a new couple is a complication during childbirth and harm to the fetus. The stories of Haya-Noa, Mor and Bat El contradict all the doctors' predictions. Their families said that "we have already been summoned for a conversation

Eliran Kochavi and his wife were excitedly expecting a child together, but in the fifth month of pregnancy they received shocking news – a problem was discovered in the development of the fetus. The doctors recommended terminating the pregnancy, but the two did not give up and decided

Where to start? In the voice of sanity – there are also babies who will not survive the perinatal period, most will survive but some will not. Their pictures do not decorate the walls outside the perinatal period but this story is

Sherry Stoller, a physiotherapist, is a guest and talks about the experience of families of premature babies - when a baby is born prematurely, the family begins a journey that is different from the content, in part scary and unknown. About the experience of a family of premature babies and later in life.

Yaela was born at 24 weeks of pregnancy weighing 465 grams. She was born early because I had very severe preeclampsia and ended up in intensive care. It was only a week after the birth that I saw Yaela for the first time.