One year ago, Before we even made an announcement she was earthbound, Sloan needed to spend 24 hours in UV therapy (as Zoe refers to it, the Baby Burger Warmer)… But from the moment she was born, Sloan has been VERY visual, she needed to see this and needed to keep track of that.
She couldn’t have her eyes in thst intense uv light so they had to tape her eyes shut with this mask, and she came apeshit unglued, I sat with her the whole time reading talking to her quietly reading Winnie the Pooh off my Kindle, and she held my finger the entire time.
They also put her in a translucent tray with a folded towel, that seemed super uncomfortable (we had held her as much as possible after getting out of NICU) and I just used one of our pillows, put a crease in the middle and she sat on my lap on the pillow.
The nursing staff didn’t care if I didn’t care about rearranging the equipment.
Zoe went through some prolonged, intense pain to get this little girl out… Having my first born child on a pillow on my lap was cake by comparison.
Its so hard to remember her being this small and frail… Her being in NICU for the first few days was terrifying. I spent another three months terrified if I breathed wrong olnesr her she’d collapse…
Now she’s giggling like a maniac while giving us all the Razzle Dazzle, showing her ass, and living up to my very high standards of biting people and being cute as heck while doing it!
My little Honeybee is a hell raiser!