They asked me if I could be out of my room by 2:00 pm and I thought that wouldn't be a problem because I typically so see Evelyn at 2. My mom could load up the car, we could see her and then we could head home.
At 10:30, I had a appointment with the lactation consultant. That was extremely unsuccessful, as I thought my child was choking the whole time and I decided this could get frustrating. However, I complied with trying again the next day, thinking in my mind about that saying "Third times a charm!" Maybe we just needed to try again and again.
When we came back my mom began taking small loads of stuff to the car and I took a shower. Everything was barely loaded just in time, so I headed to the NICU to see Evelyn and my mom took the last load down to the car.
When I walked in, Mrs. Bev was leaving to go to lunch. I looked at her with a funny look and she did the same to me. I was thinking to myself how am I suppose to do all this by myself? She said, "you know you are an hour early?!" Wow, she was right I had loaded the car and checked out of my room at 1:00 pm instead of 2:00 pm. CRAZY! Now what was I going to do? I try not to bother Evelyn in between the touch times so she takes a good nap and continues her development. My mom reminded me I hadn't had lunch, so we went downstairs to have lunch and shopped in the little gift shop.
When we went back up, Mrs. Bev said that Evelyn gets to put clothes on! I was so excited!
A few minutes later someone (I think the charge nurse) came by and told Mrs. Bev they needed to talk to her about moving Evelyn to "Intermediate Care!" Mrs. Bev was shocked. Not that she wasn't ready to go, but that this was Mrs. Bev's 4th day in a row to work a 12 hour shift and in the last 4 hours they were going to move Evelyn and give her a new baby to assess and begin care on. I was not happy, so I kindly said something! After the nurse left, Mrs. Bev told me thank you, because they were going to wait until shift change to move Evelyn! Yeah, Mrs. Bev gets to finish her shift with her and Evelyn is going to a step down NICU!
It was time for Kangaroo time, my favorite! I sat in the chair and Mrs. Bev quickly said, "I don't know what you are doing, your moving to Intermediate care which means she won't be here long. You need to figure this out and do it yourself. Get up and put her in the kangaroo pouch!" LOL! I just love her! She was very right, I can't be afraid to pickup my own baby!!!!
After Kangaroo time we had our last group pep talk and Mrs. Bev told her she would not be there on Friday when she came back for her next shift. She told her she needed to start breathing on her own and eating by mouth to get ready to go home!!!
I'll never forget the love, care, education and counseling Mrs. Bev provided for Evelyn and me! I requested the Evelyn get her back this weekend but my request was unsuccessful, as they needed her in with the "sick babies."
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