A moment in time....

This post makes me the most emotional so far I think. When I think back to that precise moment, it's a feeling I will never forget for the rest of my life.
We were introduced to Liam's nurse, who eventually turned out to be one of his main night nurses. I can't imagine that it's ever easy for an NICU nurse to watch new parents and the flood of emotions that follow, when they meet their baby for the first time. Nancy, was so kind and wonderful to us on that day. One of Liam's angels.
We were brought to his bedside, and told not to panic by the amount of equipment surrounding him. As any parent of a baby who has been in the NICU can attest to...the sound of the NICU is something one never forgets. The constant sound of alarms and monitors is still very engrained in my memory.
It wasn't like a 1,2,3 are you ready thing (thank god)...they let us lift up the cover on our own....and there he was *tear*...he was like the tiniest baby bird. He weighed 690 grams, he was 12 inches long, red as could be, skin so translucent it looked as if it would tear. He had tubes and wires everywhere, his eyes were still fused shut.  He wore the tiniest diaper either one of us had ever seen....but there he was....tiny BUT absolutely perfect in every way !!!! This was our son, and we were his parents !!!! WOW !!!
There were so many emotions at that moment...thankful that he had survived such a traumatic birth, joy to be able to say this was our son, fear of the unknown, anger that this had happened to all of us...it's just so hard to explain.
Nevertheless, here he was , and life as we knew it took on a whole new meaning......