Holding the baby

Based on some responses to this mornings post I thought you might be interested in a little more detail about what has to happen for us to hold Emma!

This is how her room is set up (though it's a big ventilator to the left now):

So to move her , it takes two nurses - one to lift the baby, the other to swing the IV tree on the right around to the other side of the chair:

Then Emma is laid in our arms and all her tubes are pinned to a sleeve so they don't pull out.

And then because it takes so much work, and can be distressing for her right now, we have to stay put for at least 45 minutes. (That's right, no potty break!!) But as you can see, we weren't in any rush to put her back!!