NICU

Last night we toured the NICU.  It's such a special place.  Jesse wheeled me through the quiet halls on the maternity floor through big locked double doors into this bright cheerful place that was bustling with more nurses and doctors than I've seen all week.  A very nice nurse walked us around and talked us through the process we will be experiencing sometime in the next few weeks.  It was a comfort to see where the baby will be, understand what all the machines were and what they would be doing for the baby.  We met some other parents there.  They let us see their son and ask questions.  Her water broke on a Friday night(like me) and she delivered on Monday(not like me).  She was 25 weeks.  Her son was about 2 lbs at birth.  He's been in the NICU for 37 days.  They live about an hour away, down past Canandaigua.  So they go to work every day and come up here every night and sit with their baby until that have to go home and start the cycle again.   This is what life is like for NICU parents.  We are beginning to understand.