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Advice - Take lots of photos

Mrslove78Mrslove78 member
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DH felt bad about DS having tubes and machinery hooked up to him, he begged me not to take pictures of LO until he was off everything.  So, I only took a few of him in the NICU.  Wish I didn't listen at all.  I have NONE of me and DS in the NICU.  The struggle is a part of their story, even though it's hard to see your LO hooked up to stuff now, it'll be great to look back at the pics when LO is older.
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Re: Advice - Take lots of photos

  • SWMcFarlandSWMcFarland member

    Meh.  Everyone is different.  I have few pictures of her in the NICU and I'm glad.  My heart stops every time I see one of the few.

    I will have NO problem remembering every single minute of that time.  I don't think I will ever need pictures as a reminder.

    Just my opinion though.

    3/22/09 - Lily Grace, born at 33 weeks, 2 days
    9/12/14 - M/C @ 7 weeks, 1 day (ectopic)

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  • *KatieH**KatieH*
    I will kind of agree with you but also add this I have them but still don't look at them. Nope, when I catch a glimpse it's too much Sad
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  • KLynKLyn
    i agree with you .  I have tons of pictures, but then again, the only "equipment" they really had was a cpap and ng tube.  Thank God they didn't need more intervention than that.  I think if they had more invasive stuff i might feel differently.  I'm a picture whore though, so i'd probably still have a lot!
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  • RRHsMomRRHsMom
    I wish I had more pictures too and I feel like we have quite a few.  I love the pictures the nurses took when we weren't there and missed a mini milestone.  They took a pic the first time he opened his eyes bc we missed it and I was so glad they did because that was very disappointing to miss that.  I liked looking at a pic of him when I pumped as well so I always had one near me.  I agree it is a personal choice but one of my nurses told me she was a NICU survivor (hole in her heart and had many surgeries through childhood) and she wished her mom had taken more pics bc she'd like to see them now so we took the pics more for Ryan than ourselves thinking he may want them in the future.  Do what feels right to you.
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  • lstaylor73lstaylor73
    I agree.  I wish I had more, so many turned out blurry or awkward because of our crappy camera.  I often look at the pictures now because it really helps me get through the difficulties we are going through now.  It just shows me how incredibly far the boys have come and that everything we are going through right now seems so awful, but really it's nothing compared to where they've been. 
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  • Ace1599Ace1599

    This is probably one of my biggest regrets too, only mine is I was ALWAYs behind the camera. I have very few pics of DS, DH and I, or DS with his primarys. Shoot, I do not even have one of the 3 of us leaving. I wish I would have asked more often to have the nurses take pics of us.

     

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