With her umbilical IV removed, Kinley was eligible for “kangaroo” — sometimes called ‘skin-to-skin’ — where she would actually be removed from the incubator and placed on her mother’s chest. I shared the news with mom and her face lit up.
“Really?” she exclaimed.
The excitement carried her through the rest of the day. She nearly ate a full lunch and she had a smoother stride on her walks.
When we made it down to Kinley’s bedside this evening, the nurses had a recliner waiting for her.
Kinley was clearly right at home with her mother, positioned so she could feel her mother’s heartbeat and breaths again. It was the calmest I’d seen either of them.