Having a baby in NICU: Guilt, fear and finding your bond | Charlotte Corbett

Why aren’t we talking about this? · Oct 8, 2026 · 35m

What does life after NICU feel like when your baby is home, but you’re still on high alert?

Charlotte joins me to share her experience of neonatal intensive care after her son Bertie was born ten weeks early. She describes NICU as “a beautiful horror movie”: somewhere that felt both safe and frightening, where the machines kept beeping, life outside carried on and she was trying to understand what her role was when other people were caring for her baby.

We talk about going home without him, feeling torn between the hospital and her daughter, and how expressing milk became a job she could…