A Visit Back To The Hospital

Chad and I have been trying to figure out when to visit the hospital, so the nurses could see the girls, when we got an invite to visit them. The Special Care Nursery just recently moved into a new location and were now located on the first floor in an old IcU. The location is great. The old location was very small and you had absolutely no privacy. This new location is HUGE and since it use to be an IcU there were separate rooms for all. At the most, there would only be 2 babies to a room. This would have been great for Chad and I with the girls, as we would have had our own room. And now that the unit is larger and there are separate rooms, the hospital can now call it a NICU and take on more children. And they could take children with more health concerns as well.

It was a lot of fun to see some of the nurses that cared for our girls. When we walked in, they all remembered us and were so excited to see the girls. They could not believe how good they looked and how much they have grown. We had them in identical clothes that day…we don’t do this very much. The shirts they had on were given to us by my co-worker, they read “if you think I’m cute you should see my twin.” The nurses could not stop talking about these shirts…they loved them, so thanks Julie they were a hit!

We also got a chance to see a family that was there at the same time as the girls. Their son, Freddy, was born on the same day. Freddy had a heart problem and was going to undergo open heart surgery. Freddy looked amazing. He was finally able to go home in early March. He is still on a feeding tube about half of the day and receives the bottle for the other half. But he is doing amazing. By seeing Freddy and talking to his parents, it made me realize how lucky Chad and I are to have such healthy girls. Not only was this family dealing with not having their child at home with them for so long, their son having open heart surgery, but his mom was also hospitalized a week before she gave birth. This has been a very long process for them. But to see the joy on their faces with how well he is doing, made all that sadness go away. We wish them well.
The morning at Fairview Ridges was a lot of fun. When we pulled into the parking lot, Chad looked at me and said, this sure brings back memories. And it did…but all in all, the girls were in GREAT hands when they were patients.

This picture was taken during our visit...high school volunteers made us this cute frame.