Day 354 - First Real Hold & Christmas Jammies🎄🎅🏻🦌
Sunday, December 19th, 2021 This is the first time Mom has been able to hold James like this. He doesn't really like to be cuddled and it's common for trach G-Tube babies to not want to be in this position. Mom pulled James out of the bouncer and he was so tired that he let Mom hold him like this while he slept. So Mom asked Dad to take a photo and then she cried (without trying to wake James up), because it's taken almost a year to be able to hold James this close. We've had to stick to football/cradle holds. Bonding has been hard... with him being "hands off" for months in the NICU, having a scheduled 30 minute window when we could put our hands in the incubator hoping he would hold our finger, the first hold being at 48 days, pretty much bed bound for the first 8.5 months of life, not being able to breastfeed or bottle feed, and taking on the role of nurse sometimes gets in the way of being a parent. We were only able to do skin to skin 3 times in the hosp...