My oldest daughter was also born 6 weeks early, she started kindergarten this year and is perfectly healthy. She was in NICU for 2.5 weeks before being discharged. Keep up the positive thoughts and everything will be fine. As others have said, make sure and take care of yourself too. Also don’t forget mom, she needs you through this tough time as well. After ours was born, it was 3 days before my wife and was able to leave her room to go see the little one, take lots of pictures and videos!
Another tip for you that helped a ton for us financially. If you and your wife are on separate insurance plans, be sure to put the little one on both plans. It will be a doubling of premiums until the next open enrollment, but it will likely significantly help your out of pocket expenses from NICU. Our gross charges before insurance were in the 6 figure range and we paid no out of pocket to the hospital.
Another tip for you that helped a ton for us financially. If you and your wife are on separate insurance plans, be sure to put the little one on both plans. It will be a doubling of premiums until the next open enrollment, but it will likely significantly help your out of pocket expenses from NICU. Our gross charges before insurance were in the 6 figure range and we paid no out of pocket to the hospital.