This is the first picture I had of
Kalib. It was taken by the nurses. I carried it everywhere with me until he
came home from the hospital. |
Kalib
was manually bagged for about 3 hours before the transport team arrived with
the proper equipment to ventilate him. |
The
transport nurses wrapped Kalib in saran wrap to keep him warm because his skin
was so thin. |
The nurses packed gloves filled
with warm water around Kalib to help raise his body temperature. |
Kalib in A nursery at Methodist
Hospital. |
Kalib had tubes coming out of every part of his
body during his 6 month stay at the hospital. One time he had 6 blue pumps
pumping various liquids into his small body while he was also receiving a
blood transfusion. There is a headphone laying in his warmer. Aaron and I had
recorded ourselves reading stories on a tape. The nurses played it for
him when we weren't there. |
Kalib's 1st week at NICU. He had
to wear a hat over his eyes to protect them from the photo therapy light to
help his jaundice. |
Kalib at 1 month. The nurses took
this picture for us because his eyes were open and we weren't there. |
Kalib at Methodist during 2nd
month. He's gaining weight. Notice the picture of his big brother,
Matthew, on the side of his bed. We put that there the first day so he
wouldn't be alone when we couldn't be there. |
Kalib's 2nd month at hospital. A
little closer up. You can really tell he's gaining weight. |
Kalib is holding mom's finger
here. He will probably kill me for this picture when he gets older but this
was the first time he really had butt cheeks and I just thought it was so
cute. This was also the first time Kalib was taken off of the ventilator and
put on CPAP. |
This was Kalib's first real
diaper. He previously had just a cotton ball or nothing on. The nurses didn't
want to irritate his already broken down skin. He is wearing this diaper in
preparation for us getting to hold him for the first time. This is a preemie
size diaper. Very small and it goes up to his armpit. |
This was the first time we were
allowed to hold Kalib. He was 67 days old. His health and body were so fragile
the first couple of months we couldn't hold him. he was the heaviest 2 lb baby
to hold because he still had so may tubes and I was so scared I would pull
something loose. |
This is me sitting beside Kalib's
warmer in A nursery. |
Another picture of his warmer bed
in A nursery. |
This
is a picture of Kalib being weighed in the NICU. A scary thing to
see. He was so small and had to be "unplugged" to get a
weight. He weighed 660 grams. (Late August 1993) |
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