NICU...day by day.... Part 2

Since the future posts will be at the top, I am putting these in chronological order and will give details up there later. :)

2-8-11 (iPhone pics)

I went in for her 6 am care and this is what I found. Can you get more comfy than this?!

Carol came to visit and bring some things we needed. Obviously, HK needed this onesie. Carol made sure we all knew that this was referring to her and not Bonnie or Jana!

You will see a trend.....she likes to have her feet hanging out!

Wesley doing her care-we check her temperature, change her diaper, wipe out her mouth, move her pulse-ox thing to the other foot, and start her tube feeding.

2-9-11

We took some pictures with Wesley's wedding ring so that you can see how tiny she is. We were going to put it on her arm (it would totally fit), but her giant hands wouldn't fit through his ring. So, she held it instead.

Wesley loves this picture because he says it is totally her personality, all stretched out and eyebrows raised. :)

Foot in Daddy's hand.

Family picture!

2-11-11

She will sometimes take her paci and sometimes she wants nothing to do with it. Occasionally, her nurse will put a little bit of her milk on the tip and let her have her paci when her feeding is started.

HK with her hat made by Mommy.......Wesley says it makes her look like a gnome!

2-12-11

I finished her first hat! I had made hats for Rachel and Leah, but I didn't have one ready for Hannah Kate until now.

I went in for her 6 am feeding and found this! Our girl wearing CLOTHES! We hadn't expected for her to get to wear clothes for quite awhile, so I was pretty excited. Her nurse that night was Lindsay and she made sure she looked super cute.

I finished her blanket! I had been almost done a couple of weeks before, but I ran out of yarn 3 rows before the end.

2-13-11

Saturday was a big day-we had 17 visitors. Thankfully, it worked perfectly because they were spaced out enough that one group left as the next group was coming in.

Sarah, Ma Coley, Celia, Carol, and Connie (not pictured-how did that happen?!) came first.

Matthew and Morgan came all the way from Kentucky!

The Cleveland bunch came too.

Jonie, Kristy, Kellee, Brody

Cody, Joe, Kyle, Brody

Mrs. Lindsay helped Wesley and Hannah Kate get situated.

Pretty impressive-he has good daddy skills if he can hold her with one hand!

2-14-11

Moving from Stahlman NICU in the main hospital to the Children's Hospital NICU 4/10 mile away.

The nurse in pink is Nurse Cindy....she had her most days in Stahlman.

HK did NOT like being moved......she screamed from the time her bed started rolling until the time it stopped. When they got her bed into position in her new room, she was perfectly fine. :)

We wanted her moved because the CH NICU has private rooms-we can stay with her as long as we want and look at how cute she is!

Our favorite nurse Michelle is her "primary" nurse and moved with us! This is especially good because Michelle works nights and it feel like we are just leaving her with a friend. Michelle was her nurse the night she was born and Kristy informed her that she had to be her nurse the rest of the time we are here (Thanks, Kristy!).

I made her Valentine's Day hat! (it looks more like a tulip than a heart, but oh well....)