My favourite NICU photos

Recently on the Li’l Aussie Prems website there was a thread where people posted their favourite NICU photograph(s). There were a lot of beautiful photographs.

I found it hard to choose only one, and in the end chose four.

This is her perfect little foot on day 3, the day of her lowest weight (795g).

Avoiding the paparazzi.

Our fingers touching. She is one month old. This photo is slightly out of focus and I intended to try and take it again, but without warning she graduated from the humidicrib to an open cot.

Guess who’s cycling off CPAP and just pulled her feeding tube out again? This is our first photo of her smile.

On a related note - I recommend you take lots of photos AND make a backup copy.  I lost many of my early photos of Talia when my hard drive failed a few months after she came home and I had no backup.

Free professional photographs of your very early prem

Did you know that if you have a very early prem (under 28 weeks), you can ask a professional photographer to come and take photographs of your child - for free?  I had no idea this service existed until recently,  but it looks fantastic.

This is from their website:

The Australian Community of Child Photographers (formerly known as the Australian Charity of Child Photographers) is a volunteer organisation of child photographers from all over Australia who have come together to form an organisation dedicated to giving the gift of photographic memories to families that have experienced stillbirths, premature and ill infants and children in the Neonatal Intensive Care Units of their local hospitals, as well as children with serious and terminal illnesses. The ACOCP is dedicated to providing this gift to families in a caring, compassionate and heartfelt manner.

You can read more about what they offer here: http://www.acocp.org.au/services/

According to the website, families in Perth should contact Loren Ioppolo on 0402 364 812 or email wa@acocp.org.au