MOVING IN

The month of November has yielded blessing galore for me as the NICU has finally needed some help loving and holding those little ones after a dry spell since July!

There have also been two weeks of “hopping” times when they have brought babies over from labor and delivery when I was present.  Times when I start praying for those little ones and their families,  the babies being in critical condition as the nurses and Drs. try to get them stabilized.

 

The first week I returned I noticed a little boy in the area across from where I was snuggling a baby.  His parents came in, the mom coming over from the maternity ward, to see their little one who was in an isolette fighting for his life.  The parents just seemed so loving and nurturing; I was praying that everything would turn out well for them.

I thought about the brokenness they were experiencing;  I’m sure having their baby in the NICU was one of those things that they were not expecting that happened.  It seemed like they were handling the situation with grace and love.

A few weeks later I was pleasantly surprised to see the boy was in a regular infant bassinet which made me so happy to see.

 

 

 

As only God’s perfect timing can orchestrate, this past week I ended up going on two days that are different from my “usual” Sunday.  The NICU was hopping with 20 babies; quite a difference from the 8 or so that has been the norm.

I had wanted to hold this little guy that I had been praying for just because he still looked so small and so very angelic.  Out of the blue, the first of this two in a row day holding, a nurse said I could pick this boy up as he had a procedure that day and could use a little loving.  I had a feeling he might be going home the next day as his car seat was all ready and a packed bag was there.

 

It was such an honor and blessing to hold this boy, still so little and light, though he was about 20 days old.  I just felt like I was holding another little miracle, even though we actually are all miracles of life!  I continue to pray for this little boy and his parents; for their future together.

 

On the second day, I was sitting in the same spot where I was the day I first saw this boy’s parents come in for the first time.  This time they were ready to take him home!

I try not to make eye contact with these other people so as not to invade their privacy in these tight areas.

 

My eyes started tearing up when I heard the dad read the special shirt they had to take their baby home in.  It said, “Peace Out, NICU I’m moving in with my parents.”

 

 

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The couple then got a picture with the nurses who were there holding their sweet little boy.  Thinking about the special bond that even I experience, let alone the nurses, with these little ones just made more and more tears flow.  They give so much love and care to the babies, being their “parent”, really “family” until they are well enough to go home to their “real” family.  What a special gift and honor that is.

 

 

As I sat there rocking the sleeping baby in my arms listening to this family, I couldn’t help but think about the parallel with that saying when God calls us home to spend eternity with Him.  What joy that day will hold for us just as these parents were experiencing after 20 days of finally being able to bring their son home!

 

Will we, with joy, say…

 

 

 

The time when we get to see God and Jesus face to face,

glorifying Him even more than on this earth,

where only light is,

embracing Him!

 

What a glorious homecoming that day will be!

 

 

But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.  –Philippians 3:20-21  (NIV)

There are many rooms in my Father’s house, and I am going to prepare a place for you. I would not tell you this if it were not so.  And after I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to myself, so that you will be where I am.  –John 14:2-3  (GNT)