Bath time

I remember those days when they were tiny in the NICU and the wonderful nurses would go over bath time with me. I felt like their student, they showed us how to wash them just so. Make sure they didn't get too cold. We were required to watch a certain amount of times, and do it ourselves so many times, to meet the NICU's going home guidelines. Once the girls moved out of the isolettes, they would roll in a heated plastic table/scale and put down a little absorbent pad and get started. I remember the first time I helped, I was so nervous. They were so small and fragile I thought. The girls actually really like bath time (or spa day as I like to call it). They aren't the happiest about getting scrubbed down, but when you get to their hair, ahh that's the good stuff right there. You want to put your baby in a trance, just gently wash their hair. Mine love that. I swaddle them up in their towel, soap it up, and they start to close their eyes and coo. It's my favorite to see them so happy like that. As small as they were when they came home it has been easiest to do a sponge bath. I get out my little tub, soaps, towels, clean sleepers and set it all up for them. I'm getting excited though, because they are big enough now to move to the baby tub I have for them. So they'll be getting a bubble bath next time. It's the little things like that, that make me smile.