Post-Operation
When Evelyn returned from surgery she had so many wires and tubes attached to her, keeping her alive. It was so daunting. Her surgery had lasted 5 and a half hours. How a tiny baby, who shouldn't even be in the world yet, can survive such an ordeal is beyond me. The strength and resilience of NICU babies is remarkable. She was just so fragile. What you can't see in this photo is that she is on a ventilator, which meant we couldn't cuddle her. All I wanted to do is just hold her tight, my heart ached. We would lay our hands on her in the incubator to sooth her. Premature baby skin has not yet developed fully so should not be stroked as this can cause them pain. Its a horrible realisation as the first thing you tend to do, before you know this fact, is stroke their skin. As I mentioned she was on a ventilator, but, as you can see from the photo above, she had all sorts monitoring her and keeping her alive. The top white tube, with tiny numbers on it, was her TAT. I...