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Preemie Attire
The Art of Dressing Your Very Little One
By Katherine Bontrager
For Ellis, the brand "Little Me" was a hit. "The brand makes a fabulous selection of preemie sleepers, which my son lived in once he was able to wear clothes, and most (if not all) come with a matching hat," she says. "Most were gifts, but I bought a few at Macy's. Babies 'R Us also has a small section for preemies, which was great. They had outfits, socks, hats, etc."
Ellis says the hospital staff would loosely put surgical tape over the ankle area to keep the socks on. "It wasn't tight at all, but kept them on," she says. "If the outfits were large, we rolled the sleeves and swaddled him."
Rubinstein discovered that the best clothing trick was newborn sleep sacks, which offered easy access for changing diapers, helped avoid skin irritation and made it easy to feed monitor wires through the material. "When Becka finally did come home at 6 months and 3 days, she was still on an apnea monitor, and I spent an evening slitting the bottom seam in the warm sleeper sacks so that I could feed the monitor wires through," she says. "Keeping the monitor wires fed out by her feet also kept the wires away from her hands, neck, etc."
Rubinstein found that since babies grow quickly, it really doesn't pay to invest in a full wardrobe of preemie clothes. "My daughter had continuing issues when she returned home and had such significant reflux that she had to be changed after every feeding, which we did every one to two hours," she says. "The reality was the sleeper sacks were a Godsend."
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