4th Day at the NICU

Thursday was an incredibly hard day. Talked to the neonatologist in the morning and went over a possible complication that we may have but we wont know more until next week. Mom held it together for about 2 minutes then she completely lost it for the rest of the day. I ended up going back down to Lewisburg later in the day so I could de-stress in my own way and Liz called off of work to stay with me for the night.Turns out there were 8 births on the high risk floor that day alone and they ended up closing the NICU for several hours while they were getting all the new arrivals in. Liz and Mom finally were able to get in around 9:45PM and she was so glad they did. They approached Drayke's bed and his nurse said "you're in time! You can help me change his diaper and take his temperature!" Mom was bouncing off the walls because so was so ecstatic. OMG! She finally gets to really touch her son! She got to pull his little arm up and tuck the thermometer into his armpit. She told him "sweety, we need to get you fattend up because I have had chicken wings that have more meat on them". She just kept looking across his bed at Liz with happy tears flowing. Then trying to figure out how to lift him to change his diaper was a challenge. Being so small she was not sure as to how to handle him. The nurse told her to just take his legs and pull him up just like a full term baby and tuck the clean diaper under his dirty one. Then they started to pull off his dirty diaper and all of the sudden he peed a good foot across his bed towards Liz. They laughed hysterically at this, not expecting him to have THAT kind of reach with his stream. She got to clean his boy bits and finished putting the diaper on him. She has never been so happy to change a diaper in her life! As they walked out she was all "YES! Gods I needed that! My boy is doing so good" She slept VERY well Thursday night.