Their journey of life

Their Journey OF life……

Tuesday May 31^{st (}their birthday!):  My first site of Jace and Jocie in the NICU looked like this:  they are both in their own incubator that is temperature and humidity controlled.  They also have preemie shades on to protect their eyes from the light to treat them for jaundice.  Of course there is a ton of tubes running in their arms and mouth and nose – some for IV to give them nutrients, some to give antibiotics, and a respirator tube to help them breath going through their mouth into their lungs.  I didn’t really take note of much else – I just wanted to look at them and not all the tubes and equipment.  I got to touch them for the first time through the incubator.  The touch was simply placing my finger onto their little bodies.  There was no stroking or patting like a mother’s instinct would typically do as preemies are not use to that time of touch on their delicate skin.  I’m sure I was told various bits of information that night from the nurses but I don’t really recall much of it.  I could not sleep that night – as the nurse had me start pumping every 3 hours to freeze and store breast milk once they would be reading for feedings hopefully within a week.  I just kept running the events leading up to the delivery in my head.  I couldn’t wait for it to be morning so I could see them again.