Night at the NICU

We like visiting little Alice after my Beloved gets off work. It's late and the NICU is quiet. We went up last night not intending to stay very long, just long enough to tell her we love her and to make sure she's growing like she's supposed to and not giving the nurses a hard time. 

When we arrived, the nurse let us know she got a bath and didn't like it. This worries her very clean parents. ;) We also got to bring home her bedding to wash. I've been able to hold her but not Skin to Skin which is apparently something that is very important to Momma and Baby. We had no intention of getting her out of her bubble. I worry it stresses her out but she's off her SiPAP machine and no longer has an IV so she's less plugged in so the nurse said it would be a perfect time. I wasn't prepared for this answer so I had to borrow Daniel's shirt. :) 

She wiggled and rested on my chest for an hour before her 11pm feeding. I'm not sure a premature baby that's only 2 weeks old should be lifting her head like our girl but she does - little wiggle worm. After the holding, the nurse says we could change her diaper. Uh oh. We haven't taken the class yet. 

So while the nurse isn't supervising the parents - Alice projectile poops all over her clean bed. Oops. Now we have two sets of bedding to clean. This means the nurse now needs help cleaning the bed and the baby. I'm pretty sure this is going in her chart. They might not let us bring her home. 


As she's looking at Daniel like "what are you people doing?" she pooped again in her clean diaper. The poor nurse. While we're scrambling to get the bed clean so her feeding can begin the nurse asks if she's our first.

Yep, how'd ya guess? ;)

She's doing really well. She's gaining weight and eating lots. When she's on her tummy, she pushes up with her hands and feet - I worry she'll roll out of her pea pod. She's too young to roll, right?! We're going to walk in one day and she'll be tapping on the side of her box asking to come home. :) 

Until next time.....