Your Monday Photo Shoot: Things You Made
This week for the Photo Shoot, it’s time to show off!
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of something you’ve made. Pottery, cookies, a drawing or painting, a poem or a pipe cleaner stick man — it’s all good, it just has to have been made by you. Show off your creativity.
My first thought was to show off the 63 scrapbooks I have completed over the last 10 years. Photo scrapbooking is a passion of mine because I do love to take pictures and I believe that they are meant to be enjoyed rather than tucked away in a shoebox or the computer hard drive. The fact that all of my children, family and friends all thumb through our photo memories that I put together shows it is worth the effort. It is also something to pass on to my children because I am not a wealthy person. No, I am the mother of five.
That was my first thought.
Then last night at work, while weighing a baby and changing the linen in his isolette I thought about how creative we NICU nurses can be to position these teeny-tiny babs in such a way that they can grow and thrive outside of the womb. We try, in our own inept human way, to mimic life inside the womb where these babies are still supposed to be curled up into tight, flexed positions like they would be while growing inside their mama.
There are preemie buntings available and are oh so cute (and expensive) but because I am a bit of old school when it comes to caring for these tiny wonders, I believe in using blanket rolls to encourage the tiniest of babies to curl their limbs up close to their bodies which is actually comforting to them. A nest like this would take three receiving blankets and 2-3 cloth diapers to create for the average 1-2 lbaby. It is a familiar environment to them being contained in this way. Think of the environment from whence they came. On any given night at work I will create 1-3 and sometimes more (because everybody poops) of these nests for my patients.
The NICU environment is loud, bright and assaults all the senses of a baby who recently was safely coccooned inside his mama. Mimicking the close quarters of their first home and encouraging the baby to curl up in this “nest” helps the baby to organize himself in a stressful and painful environment. My voice, my touch and all the probes, prods, and pokes I expose my tiny patients to are very stressful and painful. The best way to help a baby cope or withdraw from the pain and stress of this environment is to provide something that is familiar, like being curled up in the womb.
The payoff?
Time can only tell. But I do believe one of the reasons why this guy is so amazing is because of the start he received. There were no absolute guarantees but it is a great start for an early bird like him.
Yes, he once was THAT small.
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Things You Made
This week for the Photo Shoot, it’s time to show off!
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of something you’ve made. Pottery, cookies, a drawing or painting, a poem or a pipe cleaner stick man — it’s all good, it just has to have been made by you. Show off your creativity.
My first thought was to show off the 63 scrapbooks I have completed over the last 10 years. Photo scrapbooking is a passion of mine because I do love to take pictures and I believe that they are meant to be enjoyed rather than tucked away in a shoebox or the computer hard drive. The fact that all of my children, family and friends all thumb through our photo memories that I put together shows it is worth the effort. It is also something to pass on to my children because I am not a wealthy person. No, I am the mother of five.
That was my first thought.
Then last night at work, while weighing a baby and changing the linen in his isolette I thought about how creative we NICU nurses can be to position these teeny-tiny babs in such a way that they can grow and thrive outside of the womb. We try, in our own inept human way, to mimic life inside the womb where these babies are still supposed to be curled up into tight, flexed positions like they would be while growing inside their mama.
There are preemie buntings available and are oh so cute (and expensive) but because I am a bit of old school when it comes to caring for these tiny wonders, I believe in using blanket rolls to encourage the tiniest of babies to curl their limbs up close to their bodies which is actually comforting to them. A nest like this would take three receiving blankets and 2-3 cloth diapers to create for the average 1-2 lbaby. It is a familiar environment to them being contained in this way. Think of the environment from whence they came. On any given night at work I will create 1-3 and sometimes more (because everybody poops) of these nests for my patients.
The NICU environment is loud, bright and assaults all the senses of a baby who recently was safely coccooned inside his mama. Mimicking the close quarters of their first home and encouraging the baby to curl up in this “nest” helps the baby to organize himself in a stressful and painful environment. My voice, my touch and all the probes, prods, and pokes I expose my tiny patients to are very stressful and painful. The best way to help a baby cope or withdraw from the pain and stress of this environment is to provide something that is familiar, like being curled up in the womb.
The payoff?
Time can only tell. But I do believe one of the reasons why this guy is so amazing is because of the start he received. There were no absolute guarantees but it is a great start for an early bird like him.
Yes, he once was THAT small.
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Things You Made
This week for the Photo Shoot, it’s time to show off!
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of something you’ve made. Pottery, cookies, a drawing or painting, a poem or a pipe cleaner stick man — it’s all good, it just has to have been made by you. Show off your creativity.
My first thought was to show off the 63 scrapbooks I have completed over the last 10 years. Photo scrapbooking is a passion of mine because I do love to take pictures and I believe that they are meant to be enjoyed rather than tucked away in a shoebox or the computer hard drive. The fact that all of my children, family and friends all thumb through our photo memories that I put together shows it is worth the effort. It is also something to pass on to my children because I am not a wealthy person. No, I am the mother of five.
That was my first thought.
Then last night at work, while weighing a baby and changing the linen in his isolette I thought about how creative we NICU nurses can be to position these teeny-tiny babs in such a way that they can grow and thrive outside of the womb. We try, in our own inept human way, to mimic life inside the womb where these babies are still supposed to be curled up into tight, flexed positions like they would be while growing inside their mama.
There are preemie buntings available and are oh so cute (and expensive) but because I am a bit of old school when it comes to caring for these tiny wonders, I believe in using blanket rolls to encourage the tiniest of babies to curl their limbs up close to their bodies which is actually comforting to them. A nest like this would take three receiving blankets and 2-3 cloth diapers to create for the average 1-2 lbaby. It is a familiar environment to them being contained in this way. Think of the environment from whence they came. On any given night at work I will create 1-3 and sometimes more (because everybody poops) of these nests for my patients.
The NICU environment is loud, bright and assaults all the senses of a baby who recently was safely coccooned inside his mama. Mimicking the close quarters of their first home and encouraging the baby to curl up in this “nest” helps the baby to organize himself in a stressful and painful environment. My voice, my touch and all the probes, prods, and pokes I expose my tiny patients to are very stressful and painful. The best way to help a baby cope or withdraw from the pain and stress of this environment is to provide something that is familiar, like being curled up in the womb.
The payoff?
Time can only tell. But I do believe one of the reasons why this guy is so amazing is because of the start he received. There were no absolute guarantees but it is a great start for an early bird like him.
Yes, he once was THAT small.
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Things You Made
This week for the Photo Shoot, it’s time to show off!
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture of something you’ve made. Pottery, cookies, a drawing or painting, a poem or a pipe cleaner stick man — it’s all good, it just has to have been made by you. Show off your creativity.
My first thought was to show off the 63 scrapbooks I have completed over the last 10 years. Photo scrapbooking is a passion of mine because I do love to take pictures and I believe that they are meant to be enjoyed rather than tucked away in a shoebox or the computer hard drive. The fact that all of my children, family and friends all thumb through our photo memories that I put together shows it is worth the effort. It is also something to pass on to my children because I am not a wealthy person. No, I am the mother of five.
That was my first thought.
Then last night at work, while weighing a baby and changing the linen in his isolette I thought about how creative we NICU nurses can be to position these teeny-tiny babs in such a way that they can grow and thrive outside of the womb. We try, in our own inept human way, to mimic life inside the womb where these babies are still supposed to be curled up into tight, flexed positions like they would be while growing inside their mama.
There are preemie buntings available and are oh so cute (and expensive) but because I am a bit of old school when it comes to caring for these tiny wonders, I believe in using blanket rolls to encourage the tiniest of babies to curl their limbs up close to their bodies which is actually comforting to them. A nest like this would take three receiving blankets and 2-3 cloth diapers to create for the average 1-2 lbaby. It is a familiar environment to them being contained in this way. Think of the environment from whence they came. On any given night at work I will create 1-3 and sometimes more (because everybody poops) of these nests for my patients.
The NICU environment is loud, bright and assaults all the senses of a baby who recently was safely coccooned inside his mama. Mimicking the close quarters of their first home and encouraging the baby to curl up in this “nest” helps the baby to organize himself in a stressful and painful environment. My voice, my touch and all the probes, prods, and pokes I expose my tiny patients to are very stressful and painful. The best way to help a baby cope or withdraw from the pain and stress of this environment is to provide something that is familiar, like being curled up in the womb.
The payoff?
Time can only tell. But I do believe one of the reasons why this guy is so amazing is because of the start he received. There were no absolute guarantees but it is a great start for an early bird like him.
Yes, he once was THAT small.