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