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Aw you're so sweet to be worrying about thank you notes but your LO is more important and everyone will understand that. Leave them for after baby gets home. Hope your LO is doing well!

Congratulations on your baby's birth! Take care of your LO and write the thank you cards when he gets home. People will understand.

Congrats on your baby!

My brother was born at 24 weeks and spent 6 months in the NICU. During that time, friends and family were amazingly supportive and bought my parents pretty much everything they needed (they weren't prepared AT ALL for him to come that early). My parents pretty much lived at the hospital during that time though and had no time for thank you cards. They pretty much just thanked people in person or over the phone when they had the chance. Some never even got a formal thank you. Everyone understood though and no one expected anything else. Etiquette rules go out the window when you have more important things (like the health of your child) to worry about.

I would wait until you are home. You need to give yourself time to heal and give your family every ounce of love and attention that you have in you. I remember being SO exhausted, pumping every 3 seconds and spending all my other time with LO in the NICU. My mom asked me daily if I had written thank you notes yet and I finally broke down in hysterics at her for badgering me about them. That was the last thing I needed on my mind and it should be the last thing you are worried about right now. People will understand. I definitely believe in still sending them out but people won't care whether it is 3 days after you receive the gift or 2 weeks after you get home with baby. Take care of yourself first and go cuddle that sweet baby of yours!! The rest will fall into place once you get home.

Congrats on your los arrival! It sounds like your Dh has a great group of coworkers who will totally understand your need to focus on baby. Fwiw, i sent a shower present to a friend in march and it was easily a month before i got a thank you, and her LO hasnt arrived yet.

Alternately, if you are really stressing maybe DH could do some?

Take care of you and LO first. People will understand! I hope the NICU stay is short and baby is home in your arms soon

I had my baby shower a week before LO was born (she was 5 weeks early!). I didn't send TY notes until after she left the NICU and we were settled in at home. Focus on you and your baby. Late thank you notes will be just fine. I hope LO comes home soon!

I wrote half of my thank yous in the NICU. I just found them the other day and realized that I forgot to send them! I hope everyone is understanding - I think 90% are.

Congrats on your LO, and I hope you're all home soon!

I would be shocked to receive a thank-you note when your LO is in NICU, so I wouldn't even worry a whit about doing them now. Wait until you're home, I'm positive everyone will understand.

Congrats on you LO! If you're not up to writing them then I wouldn't worry about it until you get home. If you need something to pass the time while LO sleeps then you can start writing them.

When DD was in the NICU I sat by her bassinet about 12 hours a day. Since she was only awake a couple of hours I spent the rest of the time writing TY notes. It helped my take my mind off things and feel productive. I was happy that I didn't have to worry about it once I got home.