As I've mentioned before, Aisling arrived 5 weeks early. She spent the first days of her life in the special care nursery at Credit Valley Hospital. She was fed via nasal feeding tube since she hadn't yet developed the sucking reflex.
Although her older siblings were aware of a new baby that was to join our family, Aisling's sudden appearance caught us all by surprise. The day after her birth, Devlin and Ceilidh came to the hospital to meet their new sister. They were taken to the special care nursery, had their hands washed , and were introduced to the newest member of the family. They oohed and aahed and gently touched her, but soon lost interest in the sleeping baby. Their attention was on the various beeping machines, the tubes and leads stuck to the baby, and the incubators that held other tiny infants.
"What's that for?" Devlin asked, pointing at a screen with squiggly line. The nurses explained the machines monitored the baby, and made sure the baby was okay.
"Oh," he said knowingly, "just like on Grey's Anatomy!"
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