NICU Staff
I want to start this post by sharing my immense personal gratitude for all NICU staff in St Mary's, but also my gratitude for all NICU staff globally. All the nurses, student nurses, consultants, doctors, surgeons, developmental physios, speech and language therapists, dieticians, administration staff, technical staff, all of you who touched our lives in St Mary's - thank you. Its not just your job when you work in NICU, its a vocation. I learned so much from so many of the nurses and support staff. They had to show us how to wash our hands properly to lessen the spread of infectious microbes. I can imagine this is a very difficult conversation to have with an adult sometimes. The fact that you have to manage the parents as well as the babies - all the NICU staff - is no small feat and something I doubt you get enough praise for. You showed me how to do Evelyn's cares - cleaning her in her incubator, changing her nappy, all around the various tubes and wires com...