My Preemie Page

There are many reasons that women have their babies prematurely...I don't think any of them are pleasant...especially when not only are you in pain and miserable, but you are desperately afraid for your child's life. That's when I truly wonder about the research that has been done on early bonding... it is hard to bond when you can only have permission to touch the tiny bundle of tubes and wires a few times a day- but, even after Jon Jon's first 7 1/2 weeks of life being spent more with nurses than with me, I have never seen a Mother and a child that were any closer than he and I are. We have been finely attuned to each other from that first moment he cried...and I automatically cried right along with him! Even to this day, if I am in pain or upset, he freaks out...and the song that was the top song when I was carrying him..."I Will Always Love You"...(The Whitney Houston version) that I sang along with probably hundreds of times while still pregnant....if it comes on the radio, Jon Jon stops whatever he is doing, gets quiet, and almost goes into a daze...the bonds between a mother and her child are not easily broken.