Day 7: NICU

Today I was in the NICU again and it was good. I happened to ride up the elevator with another volunteer that was around 30 years old. She was getting the official tour of NICU and so I was able to walk around with them and get all the full details that I never got from my first day in the NICU. It was really cool because I got to care for one of the babies I saw get delivered during my L&D shift last week. For some reason I felt somewhat attached to this baby because I saw it from the mother being pregnant, to it actually being birthed and whisked away by the NICU team and now to the actual little plastic bubble he has to stay in to keep growing. I touched his hand after hearing a long lecture about how important it is for babies in their young state to be held and touched and how some babies will die if they are never touched.  I hope my touch to the little baby boy meant something to him. For the last couple of hours me and the new volunteer I rode up in the elevator with compiled hundreds of paper books on having a new baby in the NICU to give to all the new parents that come to visit their babies. We had really good conversation about what I wanted to do with my life and now were pretty good friends!