NICU Parents Group Here's a little story my sister told me over the weekend. Just for some background info, my sister was pregnant with twins and delivered them by C-section about 2 weks ago. She's fairly petite at about 5'5" and 110-115 pounds (pre-pregnancy) and mostly healthy, but needed fertility treatments to get pregnant. Anyways, at 31 weeks gestation she developed HELLP syndrome and the babies were born via C-section. Since they were almost 9 weeks premature (and small already because they were twins) they were in the NICU at a specialty hospital. My sister was discharged from the hospital after 72 hours, but the babies stayed in the NICU. Last week the doctor decided that since they were doing so well, the babies could be transferred to a NICU at a normal hospital that was closer to home (instead of staying in the specialty hospital which was 45 minutes away). My sister had been driving to see the babies every day (often without her husband because he does shiftwork) and she wanted to go see the babies at the specialty hospital before they got transferred. When she got to the specialty hospital, the lactation consultant recognized her and invited her to a weekly pizza lunch for parents who had babies in the NICU. My sister politely declined, stating that the babies weren't going to be at that hospital anymore after that day, but the consultant insisted that she come grab some lunch and meet some of the other moms. This is more or less what my sister said about the ordeal: "Ferret, I walked in the room and there were all these obese women - really trashy types, you know the kind. All they were doing was scarfing down slice after slice of pizza and bitching about the doctors and the nurses. The one had the same nurse as the twins, and she said she reported her! The nurse was so nice! And this bitch reported her because the nurse didn't come running into the room when the baby started crying, even though the mom was in there pumping breast milk for him. She said it was the nurse's job to take care of the baby, even though it's her kid and she was sitting right there beside him! And then one of them asked me when I had the baby, and when I told them it was only 5 days ago, they all started telling me I was too skinny and that I wouldn't produce enough breast milk if I didn't eat! And they kept trying to make me eat pizza! I couldn't believe it - I was the skinniest one and I was the one who gave birth the most recently!  I ate one slice as quickly as I could and got the hell out of there!" I just smiled at her and told her that is the exact reason I don't go to any mommy groups.