Jac moves from the NICU to the ICC

Jac moved from the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) to the ICC (Infant Care Unit) in a private room at 3:15 pm this afternoon.



The nurses preparing to move Jac from his spot in the NICU.



Arriving at his new location in the ICC in his private room.

The doctors had originally told me that Jac would not be ready to move from the NICU to the ICC for several more weeks but after discussing his case last night they decided that he would be much better off in a private room in the ICC rather than the open space he has been in since last Tuesday in the NICU.

There is a great deal of research that shows that the environment that preemies live in after birth needs to simulate as closely as possible the environment that they still should be in - in Mom's uterus. This means that is should be as quiet and as dark as possible. This is very difficult to accomplish in the open space of a NICU where there is a great deal of activity that generates noise and the lights need to be quite bright for the nurses to work in.

We are very excited that he has been moved into a private room that we can keep dark and quiet by keeping the lights off or low and closing the door to his room. The alarm for his sensors sounds outside so the room so his nurse is alerted to any problems. Nurses in the ICC are assigned 3 babies rather than the 2 babies that nurses are assigned in the NICU.

Nurses are able to elect which babies they would like to be primaries for (meaning they are assigned to that baby first when they are on) and several nurses that we really like have elected Jac as their primary. One nurse that we are particularly excited to have as his primary (if that works out) has some advanced training in development of preemies. We had a chance to talk with her the other night and she is a font of knowledge! We are really looking forward to having her as Jac's nurse so we can pick her brain! There is so much to learn about what Jac is telling us and what he needs!