NICU Survival Kit Headed to The Big “D”
Well past my bedtime last night, I was putting together a NICU Survival Kit for Casey Gerwer who just delivered quadruplets yesterday at 29 weeks in Dallas, TX! You can find the stats on Reid, Cameron, Trey, and Brady on their blog. Please keep them in your prayers especially over these next few weeks as their babies transition from womb to the real world where they are expected to do all the full-term tasks (breathing, feeding, maintaining their body temp., and yes, pooping!) 11 weeks early. Congratulations, especially goes out to Casey as she fought so hard for these babies and did so well to make it to 29 weeks! Way to go quad mama, welcome to the club!
Can I tell you how much I love putting these kits together?!!! I find myself praying for the family as I pack the contents of the kit. I pray for the mom’s recovery, strength for dad, the babies to be little fighters, the doctors, nurses, and respiratory therapist that are so vital to the baby’s survival……and then I’m overwhelmed with gratefulness as I reflect on our NICU days and how blessed we are with 4 healthy babies!
Especially this little guy (Clark) who really made our NICU nurses work for their money
Our super-sitter (well, she’s free so I guess she’s not really a sitter), Tami, is on her way with some hand-made preemie blankets for the kit. So soft and sweet! Many of you have emailed about the blankets so I want to give you some “specs”. Tami’s are 12 x 12 (some a little bigger or more rectangle), and I could also use some 20 x 20‘s.
…..Seacrest, OUT