I can hardly believe we’ve made it to 34 weeks! What a miraculous blessing. I never would have appreciated getting this far in the pregnancy if it hadn’t been for the pre-term labor. I probably would have been griping about being so big and uncomfortable and unwieldy, instead of praising God for his mercy. It’s not that I don’t complain from time to time (just ask Jim!), and it’s not that I don’t currently feel big and uncomfortable and unwieldy…but, I am grateful that these pregnancy “symptoms” imply I have growing babies!
The girls must have tuckered themselves out from all their game-playing yesterday, because they behaved themselves beautifully during their monitoring today. I was glad I had the same nurse today – we hadn’t scared her off, after all! The girls redeemed themselves in her eyes, and she thanked them for their cooperation. And even though she didn’t have to come in to help the head nurse get my kiddos in line (like she did yesterday), my favorite nurse still popped her head in wish us a happy 34 weeks – we felt like celebrities! It’s going to be a bittersweet day when I have to say goodbye to these wonderful ladies. I’ll obviously be thrilled to be going home to my family, but I’ll feel like I’m leaving a family behind!
(Note – this post is from Emily even though it says it’s from Jim for some strange reason)
Believe me, nurses feel the same way about our “babies” and “Moms” leaving us to go home. Sometimes the hospital is a ‘home away from home’ for quite a while, and the nurses love wtching the parents become a family of three ( or more !) in the weeks and months that they are in our care. Of course we know that going home is appropriate and the way that is suppose to be to leave the hospital and really go home…however it is not without it’s bittersweet moments too. The nurses will never forget the “special families” that touch our lives.
I am sure that you are one of those ‘special families’ for the UCONN nurses.