NICU

Welcome to the Nursery/NICU at Munroe

From December 28, 2007-January 4, 2008 Brodie stayed in the NICU. I was discharged December 30 but Doctor Hall was nice and gave me an extra night and the hospital gave me a "sleepover" night so I actually went home on January 1. It was an awful feeling going home without our baby but I knew Brodie was in good hands.

While in the NICU we got to know several nurses. The two in particular that stand out to me are nurse Stacy and nure "Hatchett". Nurse Stacy was really sweet and always talked to us a lot. Her son has cerebral palsey and she knew I taught special ed. so we talked about that every time I went in to feed Brodie and she was working. She helped me with nuring a lot also.

We also loved Nurse "Hatchett". Of course she took some warming up to at first but when you got to talking to her she was very nice...smart about babies too. I think it was my dad that named her nurse "Hatchett" because of how rough she was with the babies. She really wasn't rough, she just knew what she was doing. When she fed Brodie she would lean him back and worth real quick and beat on his back to burp him. Those of us who are scared around newborns are taken aback by how nurses can just "sling" babies around. I don't know nurse Hatchett's real name..I forgot it-oops!

Brodie ate every 2-3 hours so it seemed as soon as we got home we were back in the car to go feed him again. I was glad because I missed him everytime we left. When we arrived at the nursery door the nurses all new who we were b/c we were there so often. I felt very at ease with Brodie staying overnight ther with the nurses b/c they were so good and so loving to the babies. I am so thankful for them. Here are so pictures from the NICU/nursery.

Dad holding Brodie in the nursery.

Here is Nurse "Hatchett" teaching me how to bottle feed Brodie