Observations

Observations from this past week of work...

1. Getting a handprint that looks like a handprint of a baby is extremely difficult! Babies like to ball their little hands up the minute you put it down on the paper. And trying to explain to a tiny that we're making their mommy a cute Mother's Day card does nothing to help the situation. So sorry, hospital, for the amount of printing paper I went through. But the cards did turn out super cute and a tiny handprint makes every mother tear up.

2. Sometimes Mother's Day sucks. My friend had a baby a number of months back, but her baby was stillborn. The most devastating thing in the world... to lose a child... I'm convinced. She was at work yesterday. We talked a lot, since I too have had a stillborn son. And Mother's Day for her, just a painful reminder that her arms are empty.

3. Apparently, I'm the queen of finding infants who need a blood transfusion. And it is amazing how a tiny amount of blood help those tinies perk right back up.

4. No matter the day, I still love my job.