By Dixie Bickel | Executive Director
God's Littlest Angels' NICU has 2 babies in incubators and another baby who has a hole in his heart and is waiting for surgery. Our NICU is special because those three babies all have their mamas with them and the mothers are helping care for their tiny ones. We teach them what to do once they go home with their babies. We want the mothers to know what to do if their baby has a fever or vomiting. We want them to know and have available the medications to give their babies. We want them to know when to go to a clinic or hospital, if their babies are sick. We teach them things we want them to take home with them and help other mothers in their communities who have premature babies.
We are making up discharge kits for each child so that the family has the tools that they need to watch for health problems when the child arrives home. Each kit will have a thermometer, fever reducing medication, electrolyte solution for vomiting and diarrhea, baby blanket, clothes, diapers, and a can of formula if they need it and the mother is not breast feeding the baby. We encourage breast feeding but sometimes the mothers do not have milk.
These kits cost $30 to prepare. Would you sponsor a kit for a baby in the NICU?
Please give to our NICU discharge kit project!
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