Here's my brain before I was born!
This was a pretty scary time for everyone. Although I was just 525g this day, I have lots of machines monitoring me and equipment interacting with me. In the picture you can see a perc line, bili glasses, an umbilical line, a ventilator, IV lines, a pulsox cuff, a urine capture bag, a CO2 monitor, cardiac leads. There is also a temperature probe on me but you can't see it and I'm about to get a blood pressure cuff.
This was the very first time my parents held me in a blanket. A vision in white!
Here, you see my doctor examining me. I tried to get her to stop, but she was much stronger than I was.
When I was about a week old, I looked like a little skeleton. My cheeks were gaunt, my legs bony, and my tush non-existent. The doctors gave me lots of ``lipids'' to help me gain weight. As you can see here, they went straight to my cheeks.
This was the third time my mommy got to hold me. I was so happy and comfortable that I yawned and stretched and settled in.
Here's what my voice sounded like back then. I've since learned to be much louder. The beeping in the background is a ``pulsox'' alarm. The special care nursery is a loud place to grow up.
When things get too exciting, I sometimes get the hiccups. Here's what they sounded like when my voice was very tiny.