Sentences with word «isolette»

Almost two hours later, they brought baby Wesley into my hospital room, intubated, stabilized, and secured inside a small isolette on a cart, ready to be transported to the NICU.

Well, NICU moms who can't breastfeed are already subject to giant posters advocating b» fing in the NICU, as well as not being able to get the super special badges for their kids isolettes.

It took two NICU nurses and a respiratory therapist to lift my 1 lb, 13oz baby from his temperature - controlled isolette and nestle him under my shirt and between my breasts.

Once home, parents will need blankets to help keep their preemie warm, especially during the transition from a heated isolette to an open crib.

We walked past little isolettes, special beds for premature babies.

You can display them in the isolette if you want and they are laminated so you can wipe them clean if you are concerned about germs.

Just outside the door was a chilled, sanitized world: a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), where tiny, premature babies slept on pods of white fleece inside makeshift wombs — transparent boxes known as isolettes.

The procedure went smoothly and the baby was immediately handed to her husband for a chiropractic adjustment, skipping the almost requisite visit to the isolette common during a hospital birth.

Two months passed, and ounce by ounce, Wesley approached six pounds, shed his breathing support, and graduated from his isolette into a bassinette.

The hospital staff can help you handle your baby through openings in the isolette (a special nursery bassinet).

Narrator: Once your preemie is able to take short breaks outside the isolette, the next vital thing both Mom and Dad can do for their preemie is provide skin - to - skin contact, also called kangaroo care.

The first time they allow you to stick your hand in your baby's isolette to touch their tiny fingers, or the moment they're extubated, or the first time you get to feed them all on your own... These moments will be burned into your memories and give you a level of excitement that parents of healthy babies will probably never understand.

Changing a NICU baby diaper while they're in an isolette, with all these wires on their bodies, is not an easy task, but I swear you will want to do it the minute they offer just so you get to take part in your baby's care.

held him skin - to - skin as soon as I could, and reached through his isolette to provide nurturing touch whenever possible to try to counteract all of the jabs and pokes that he received daily.

I held him skin - to - skin as soon as I could, and reached through his isolette to provide nurturing touch whenever possible to try to counteract all of the jabs and pokes that he received daily.

When my son went into respiratory failure in the NICU, two neonatologists, at least two neonatal nurse practitioners, five respiratory technicians and no fewer than ten RNs were at the side of his isolette within 30 seconds.

When my granddaughter was born in the hospital, my daughter (20yo at the time) saw the isolettes (clear plastic boxes on rolling carts), she said to me «Mom, what are the boxes for?»

Or a child who spent a week in an isolette as an infant may collapse, «too weak» to take another step on a short family hike in the woods.

She thought that if there was an unspoken notification, such as a sticker to mark the isolette of babies who were born part of a multiple set where there was an infant loss, this would help the situation.

Seems like just yesterday he was the itty - bitty guy laying in an isolette in the NICU, a respirator helping his not - quite - ready lungs breathe.

You can also find month to month stickers, which you can place over your little one or even attach to the isolette / crib (with the nurse's help).

In the hospital, the isolettes of the smallest preemies are typically covered with baby blankets and quilts to individualize them and provide a dark and quiet environment.

Try not to bang things on the isolette or infant warmer, talk in a loud voice, or slam doors.

If you're concerned about light, ask a nurse if you can drape a blanket partially over the isolette.

Some parents tape pictures to the isolette or decorate the incubator.

So NICU babies must be kept warm in warmers or isolettes.

At every one of my son's doctor's appointments, my doctor reminded me about safe sleeping, so I was startled the first time I saw my twin girls, born at 29 weeks, sleeping on their stomachs in their isolettes in the NICU.

For this baby, Aquaphor was liberally applied to the skin, and the infant was kept in an isolette to minimize fluid losses.

But Celia, born through a C - section and then placed in an isolette, acquired most of her bacteria not from her mother but from a hospital.