Handy tips when your baby is in hospital
- When taking photos, be careful that the light and the Perspex from the isolette does not reflect.
- A video camera is the best to use. Try to hire one if you do not have one.
- If possible leave your camera under the isolette, and ask the nurses to take photos of special times, when you’re not there.
- Ask the nurses to take hand and foot prints along the way; you’ll be surprised how fast they grow.
- Ask if you can put your wedding ring on the arm of the baby, for photos.
- Ask to put a key or money next to your baby’s foot for photos.
- Lay your hand flat next to your baby’s head this gives others an idea of how small they are.
- Ask to keep old heart monitors wires, and arm bands, and identification cards, nappies for a keepsake box.
- Put one leg of the baby’s next to your pointer finger, for photos.
- Write down as much or as little as you want too, great memories
- List the weight and length of your baby when you know it is going to get weighed.
- Write down how many mls your baby is allowed for feeding
- If ventilated, write down the rates of the ventilator, and what oxygen levels.
- Write down when you get your 1st cuddle; make sure you get a photo.
- To make the baby feel more like yours, ask can you put your own clothes own them if you have them.
- Touch and talk to your baby, read a story to him/her if you like, they know your voice.
- Ask if you can place a tennis ball near your baby’s head for photo’s.
- Try to take time out, have a day away from the hospital. Enjoy a meal, take a walk in the park.
- Ask a friend or family member to prepare a meal, do the laundry or mow the grass, all these little things take up time, when you could be at the hospital or just tired from visiting.
- Keep a daily diary for your baby so when they are older they can read through it.
- Place family photos on the isolette so the baby can look at them.
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