Our old nightly routine

I am glad to say that we no longer have this routine as of the first part of August 2011.

We had this routine for 8 months of Emily's life. You see the belt around her chest. That was the monitors belt to detect when she would quit breathing. On the belt was two pads. The pads had to be on her sides just under her arm pits. I had to make sure the white wire was on the right side and the black on the left.
In the mornings when i took off the belt sometimes she would have raw spots from the pads.
Emily loved to play with the wires.
Having the monitor made it hard to travel and stay over. We didn't go camping this summer because we had the monitor and it had to be plugged in.
The monitor did go off when the wires or we called them leads would get loses and would no longer detect contact with her. There were a few times that it would go off in the night when i was moving her or just when she was sleeping and she would move and the leads became lose. It scared me to death every time the monitor would go off even if it was a lose lead.

But the monitor did save her life about 6 times. I am glad that part is over now. But i am very grateful that we were in the hospital when it happened the first couple of times. I am grateful for the modern technology that we have that can save babies lives. And most importantly i am grateful for a Heavenly Father that is kind and merciful. Who will lift us up and carry our burdens for us when the load is to heavy.