Meggie Moo!

Most of you know our Meggie was a preemie. I had lots and lots of trouble carrying her and she ended up coming 8 weeks early, which was really 4 weeks later than the doctors thought. They kept telling me to be prepared at 28 weeks, but she stayed in until 32 weeks. She was born 2 bls. 4oz, and 15 inches long. A tiny little baby bird! No problems, just small and spent 7 weeks in the Sunrise Hospital NICU as a feed and grow baby, then finally came home when she reached 4 pounds, 2 days before Thanksgiving.

My special, talented friend and bestest photographer Jessie, who owns SpeckledBirdArt, was inspired to come up with Images of Hope in Las Vegas, a project that she partnered with The March of Dimes to give hope to families with babies in the NICU. It shows children at different ages, healthy and happy after a beginning in the NICU. Huge canvases are on the walls of the 6th and 7th floor at University Medical Center, and all of them show children who have graduated from the NICU! Last week was the unveiling and it was so cool to see a HUGE 24x40 Meggie up on the wall! We also toured the NICU and, even though she wasn't at UMC, it still brought back so many memories...sniff. She was a healthy baby, but it was very difficult to go through most of those 7 weeks she spent there. This display is such a wonderful thing. There's hope that it will become part of the other NICU's in town in the future. Here's Meggie's picture. It was taken a few months ago, just before her 7th birthday...

Thanks Jessie! I heart you!