We've spent plenty of holidays in the hospital over the last 3 1/2 years (not all of them in the NICU) - with Alexander being in the NICU for 9 1/2 months, we caught almost every major holiday right there. As I mentioned in my last post, we'd like to do a little something nice for the families in our home NICU over the holidays this winter.
I'm leaning towards a little something for the parents in this case: stockings (maybe? or a gift bag?) with candy canes, hot cocoa packets, coffee, maybe some gingerbread men or other Christmas cookies if I can find them individually packaged, maybe hand sanitizer and lotion, and a nice card.
Anyone want to help with this? We probably need to plan for about 40 gifts.
Monday, November 28, 2011
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Out of the NICU and Updates
Miss Bethany is finally out of the NICU after 5 1/2 months. Of course, less than a week later, she ended up in the PICU with a respiratory infection, where she still is 2 weeks later. Alexander caught her infection as well, and spent 4 nights in the hospital.
Needless to say, things have been a bit busy here, and I'm only now getting around to packing up the bags I meant to get to earlier this year. I'm hoping to get those delivered this week.
We're set on blankets, unless you've got some knitted or crocheted ones. We're probably going to need to make a run to IKEA for more animals before our next batch goes out. I think we have enough outfits left, but probably will be looking for boy and neutral outfits if not for the next batch, then after that for sure. We have hats still, but could use more. We're adding travel sized hand sanitizer this go-around, and planning to add small notebooks too.
For the holidays, we'd like to do something nice for all of the preemie families in the NICU here. Maybe some cocoa packets or coffee packets? Maybe newborn or 0-3 months onesies? Not sure yet, but watch this space for more thoughts. If you're interested in helping out, let me know.
Needless to say, things have been a bit busy here, and I'm only now getting around to packing up the bags I meant to get to earlier this year. I'm hoping to get those delivered this week.
We're set on blankets, unless you've got some knitted or crocheted ones. We're probably going to need to make a run to IKEA for more animals before our next batch goes out. I think we have enough outfits left, but probably will be looking for boy and neutral outfits if not for the next batch, then after that for sure. We have hats still, but could use more. We're adding travel sized hand sanitizer this go-around, and planning to add small notebooks too.
For the holidays, we'd like to do something nice for all of the preemie families in the NICU here. Maybe some cocoa packets or coffee packets? Maybe newborn or 0-3 months onesies? Not sure yet, but watch this space for more thoughts. If you're interested in helping out, let me know.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Gift bags in progress
Since we're hanging out in the NICU with our second child (also a micro-preemie), we felt it was probably time for another round of gift bags. We're short blankets for this batch so that's on my list to get sorted out this week.
With our new arrival, a name change for this little project is probably in the works. We'll update you more when we figure it out :)
With our new arrival, a name change for this little project is probably in the works. We'll update you more when we figure it out :)
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