Tiny Clothes, for our Tiny Baby

Firstly, let me apologize for the delay with Keren’s next post here, but for various reasons, it has just been difficult to write it…sorry… but better late than never!

As Glenn mentioned in a previous post, the staff at the Causeway Trust children’s ward really did help us to settle in well, and we were reassured again that Keren was in good hands. Even though we had the family room almost adjacent, with its’ sofa bed, we stayed in the ward room with Keren, with me in the hospital bed and Glenn in a reclining chair. We could hear every beep and noise that night as the nurses periodically came in to the room to check and feed Keren, and it was comforting to be close to her, and we felt as if we got a reasonable nights sleep.

Shopping for Keren!

Because Keren was always in the incubator at this stage, she had only needed to wear wee vests (also known as singlets across the pond!) and one of the nurses suggested the next morning, that we could take some time, and go and get her some babygrows/sleepsuits as she reckoned Keren might soon get out of the incubator! This was an amazing thought, as we didn’t think we would ever get to do this, and we didn’t expect her to be with us so long.

We, understandably, had reservations about both of us leaving her for so long, but we knew we had to trust God, and leave Keren in His hands, knowing that if anything happened when we were away, it was God’s will.

Ballymena, then was the destination for the clothes shopping for wee Keren, because, although it was farther away (meaning more time away), we knew there would be a better selection of clothes for tiny babies, as Keren was just over 4lb at this stage.

Thankfully, the first shop we tried (Mothercare) had everything we needed for her, so there was no time wasted looking around. We grabbed something to eat, and headed back down.

When we arrived back at the hospital, we were told that Keren had an apnoea while we were away, this is a “temporary absence or cessation of breathing”, but they said that she had responded well when they gave her some oxygen. Although we were shocked, we could breath a sigh of relief, that she had come through it, and we knew that it was in Gods’ plan that we were elsewhere at the time.

more to follow!

June 3, 2008 | Filed Under Keren | 2 Comments