Re: preemie-l Visitors, Taking Places after Discharge
Shelli Craig (Shellic@spyder.net)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 00:52:11 -0500
Hi everyone! I've been out of commission for a few days since I deleted Windows and all
of my internet files went with it.. I only had 293 emails from all my support groups I
belong to when I got back on.. hehe..
Anyway, re: visitors: Joshua was born at 30 weeks (4lbs5oz), 2 months in NICU and came
home on a monitor. The first few weeks I kept the monitor on him CONSTANTLY. After I
noticed very few alarms, I only put it on him at night. My feelings about visitors were
as relaxed. I think we had only family see him for the first few weeks.. THEN we took
him to the beach less than a month after he came home. The Neonatologist said since we
were going to Charleston, SC and there was an excellent hospital in the area in case of
emergency he saw no reason we shouldn't go. I think he enjoyed it as much as we did. My
favorite pictures are of him on the beach under the big umbrella.
On a different note: Joshua was fitted for AFO's today (plastic leg braces for those who
are lucky enough not to know what they are! LOL!) and would you believe he let the tech
put casts on his legs and he never cried ONCE. We didn't even have a pacifier with us.
He was totally happy playing with the up/down button on the bed we were sitting on.
Drastic improvement from last month's x-ray episode where he cried so hard he was bright
red. ;)
And we're so proud of him... his newest word (to replace the old favorite, poot) is Bull
Hockey. ::Sigh:: Never dull around here.. Other new words: CD-ROM and Keyboard. My
little computer nerd...
Hope all of you are well... good night! Enjoy your babies.. they don't stay little very
long.. ::sigh::
--
Shelli, wife of Daniel and mom of sweet Joshua Kyle (born at 30 weeks gestation, now
diagnosed w/ spastic quad CP/PVL and an extreme case of cuteness) who is now 2 and will
tell you so if he's in the mood.
email: shellic@spyder.net
www: http://members.aol.com/shellic/private/craigs.htm