hands all around
The theme of tonight’s picture posting is hands. Lots of hands. These pictures are from Sunday, 11/12.
The one hand you might not notice is the Zaky behind Nolan in the first picture. It’s the brown fleecy thing, designed to be like a parent’s hand, a bit like a body pillow for little babies. The UNC NICU is trying them out.
Nolan was nearing time for another Fentanyl dose, as you can see in the second picture. Check out those white fingertips! He’s got quite a grip when he’s angry, and if you don’t give him anything else to grab, he’ll grab his vent tube with that grip. We don’t like that so much, so we try to give him a finger to take his frustration out on. When he’s upset like this, he screws up his face and looks for all the world like he’s gonna bust your eardrums… but there’s no sound. His weak little lungs can’t overcome the vent tube to make sounds. One thing about the NICU is that there are lots of alarms, but you don’t hear babies crying as much as you’d expect.
Nolan goes from sleeping (or looking like it) to angry writhing to sleeping again in a remarkably short period of time. Unfortunately, with the Fent wearing off, he gets back to upset again in short order.
Tuesday is a big birthday day, so sing a song for mom and son… Kara has a real birthday, and Nolan has one of those not-quite-as-usual birthdays we like to celebrate: two whole calendar months since he was born on September 14th! We have so much to be grateful for.
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 10:49 am
Today’s pictures are the cutest ever! I love his face, hands, little arm, I love it all!! Happy Birthday to all this day! Amy
Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 9:03 pm
Happy Birthday, dear ones, and God Bless - what strength you give - we are inspired here. And to Aunt Maria, our mighty congrats to winning garden of the century at the NC Fair, and aunt of the century to baby Nolan. XXX