Babies, babies, and more babies!

I FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO LOG ONTO THIS DUMB THING!

Anyway, this is going to be a story about my semester since the rest of you probably don't remember what school is like anymore.  I had my clinical in the NICU (that's the newborn ICU for those of you who are non medically inclined).  It was so. much. fun!  Seriously, I loved it and now it's my new dream job!  The nurses I worked with were super great and when I grow up I want to be like them.  Real personhood is only 142 days away!

Graduation take 2 is on May 3, in case any of you
feel like attending (I went to yours so I really expect
you all to be there with presents...a new car would be ideal)

So back to the NICU.  It's basically my dream come true.  I got to hang out with super teeny adorable babies every day!  The youngest ones I took care of were born at 23 weeks! (normal is 40 weeks).  They were so small, like 1.5lbs, sometimes.  I didn't really get to snuggle those ones because they were in incubators with lots of tubes hooked up.  But I did have to pick them up to assess them and it was like holding nothing.  They were sometimes smaller than the palm of my hand.  It was really cool to watch them grow and require less and less equipment every day.

This is what a 23 week baby looks like

This is a picture of a random child I found who was born
at 23 weeks and this is him at 16 months!

I also got to see those quints that were born in the summer before they went home!  They were all like 3 or 4 pounds which is amazing since there were five of them all sharing their mommy's tummy!

Awwwwwwwwww!  Babiessssss!

There were lots of really sick babies that I took care of, but also there were some that we call "feeder-growers".  These babies are usually born just a little early and so they're just not ready for the world!  They come to the NICU to learn how to eat and get big and strong like me.  These ones are really fun because you can hold them and feed them bottles and they're the perfect little cuddle size :)  On the other side of the spectrum, I saw a GIANT baby who was over 13 lbs when he was born!  He looked like a toddler!  

This is not even how extreme the comparison was between
him and my other babies

I could go on and on with my stories....but I'll save some for when I see you in 29 days!  Anywho, I fell in love with working in the NICU and last weekend I applied for my first real nurse job!!  I can't wait to be a job person like you guys (minus Bobby...but he wins anyways since he's dating me). 

Ok well I would have told you more about my life but I just realized I'm late to hand out MedBuddy tshirts so I'll write again soon!  Love and miss you all xoxo