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missgooseyface

JuliaJAG

I was fortunate enough to be able to do k care for several hours a day (usually I'd do his care, then kangaroo him for three hours until the next one), so that consumed several hours. Otherwise, I'd meet with doctors/nutritionist, annoy the nurses with thousands of questions, pump, take a million photos of him, Google obsessively and/or goof off on my iPad, read on my Nook, and before I knew it I was getting kicked out for shift change. If he was awake between cares, I would read to him, sing to him (sometimes I'd sing even if he was asleep), talk to him. (We lived far enough from the NICU that it wouldn't have been feasible to go home and come back, either... we did that a couple of times but that was a LOT of time and gas money.)

meganole25:

Played on my phone and read books on my Nook. I planned on writing thank you notes too, but never got around to it.

Ha!! I did the same... half my NICU bag was thank you notes, gift lists, and mailing supplies, but it just didn't happen. Hence I am still writing my last few thank you notes and he is six months old... oooops...... I also had bought knitting supplies but I couldn't even find the time to teach myself how to knit while on hospital bed rest, so it definitely wasn't happening in the NICU!

adrielegorburu

I kept a journal - I wrote it to her.  I would write in it everyday - I made sure to inclue what the doctors told me that day and her weight and any thing else I thought was important and then sometimes I would just write about how I was feeling and what was going on with her. It was really helpful to write.  I had a long NICU run with not alot of opportunity for Kangaroo care in the first three months. I would spend at least 10 hours a day, I always broke the day up by going out to the lake and eating my lunch out there - a little sunshine would help me. I also spent a lot of time chatting it up with the nurses and making friends with other NICU mommies.