Showing posts with label when should my preemie get a bath?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label when should my preemie get a bath?. Show all posts

7.30.2009

clean baby pictures

  
  
  
doesn't she look concerned?
she really enjoyed the bath in the water better than the sponge bath. i would recommend one over the other. it really was a bit easier with her in the water as well.
funny story: i was showing these pictures to a friend who delivered her (term) baby just a week or so after i delivered wren in the same hospital. she was looking at them and then said, "wait, isn't that.....". haha! she recognized the puke bucket! :) apparently she got to use the grey bucket during her delivery. she was still amazed that we're able to bathe wren in it.

7.29.2009

july 28- the real bath

today was uneventful. as expected, wren's oxygen needs have decreased. her blood transfusion finished this morning without event. they aren't upping her feeds until wed morning at 7am. she's going to start back at 15ml. i'm sure she'll sleep like a baby with a full belly!

the day shift didn't communicate to the night shift that it was unnecessary to give her another IV. the fellow had said it was ok to just stop her fluids and use the same IV site to administer the blood. (since it was only going over a period of 3 hours.) well, one of the IVs went out late this evening, so she would have had to have 2 anyway.

they had a set of emergency twins born today, so our family meeting got moved to tomorrow afternoon... i really need to work on my list of questions! eeek! any ideas?

this evening i got to give her a bath. not a sponge bath this time either! :) a fully fledged tub bath. (granted, it was in the same type of tub that i used to puke in in the labor and delivery ward...nice huh?) she really didn't seem to mind. she just seemed interested, and maybe a little concerned. we got all the cheesy yuck from behind her ears, in her neck rolls, and the creases of her legs.. this bathing thing is really complex! :)
her sprint went awesome. again, her oxygen needs are much less. she was on her back, on the nasal cannula, on 40ish percent!

i'll post more pictures when i wake up in the morning. they're super cute- and there are so many!


7.23.2009

july 22- THE bath

 
her first time being wet 

 
  
drying off her body

 
washing her head

 
drying her off

 
getting her baby lotion massage

 
  
  
snuggled in wearing her cute outfit.