Release Stress Hormones Naturally

Did you know, in laboratory tests, human stress  hormones were found in tears?  Stress hormones negatively affect every system and organ in the human body. Crying provides health by eliminating harmful stress hormones. Haven't you found that you feel relief after a good cry?  So go ahead Mommies of Miracles, and allow yourselves to cry it out as often as you need it so that you can refresh and renew for the special needs journey ahead.

End of Summer Savings = Safe Play Spaces

Have you exhaustively been looking for a way to finance a safe for an affordable play space, ball pit, sensory pit, transitional bed, or even a contained napping space for your child with special needs?  Sadly it is the end of summer, but with the end of summer comes BIG SAVINGS on items like inflatable pools, pool noodles, and beyond.   Inflatable pools make great, soft, contained spaces for children with various levels of ability to sleep, play, roll around, and even bounce without the added worry of injury or escape.  Make sure you get one large enough to hold your child safely and never leave them unattended.

Bedside Wheel-of-Care

Create a care notebook out of photo album sheets, binder rings, and a paper towel holder to keep in your child's room to use as references for daily care, routines, feeding schedules, medications, equipment checks and beyond.  This makes a GREAT companion reference for home health and home nurses, as well as supportive family members who aren't as involved on a daily basis.  This is also great for times of emergencies when you need a quick reference for EMTs, 911 operators, or beyond.  Include contact information for physicians and family, service providers and schools, and everything pertinent to your child's daily care/routine, and even play/sleep/hygiene  schedules.

Cochlear Doll

  Using your child's favorite color non-toxic puffy paint, simply apply it in the shape of a cochlear implant device to a doll with a smooth (hair free) head/ear area and your child can have a doll just like him/her.   Let it dry well before allowing your child to play with the doll.

Pee Pee Squeezee...

So your child wears diapers and you need to collect a urine sample..ummm yeah, right?  But how??  Here is a quick trick taught to us by a Pediatric PICU nurse for an easy way to collect a small sterile urine sample.

Place a dry/clean diaper on your child and insert several sterile gauze pads (or sterile cotton balls) into the diaper - enough to absorb a moderate amount of urine.   Once your child has urinated, wash your hands, glove up, remove the gauze pads and gently place them into a NEW sterile 60ml bolus syringe (remove the plunger first).  Place the plunger into the syringe and SQUEEZE the urine out into the testing vile(s) or sterile receptacle.  Discard syringe and supplies.

 

Hang'em High to Dry

Drip dry your cleaned/washed feeding tube extension sets by draping
them over a plastic clothes hanger (kids size are the best and least bulky).  Hang on your microwave handle or kitchen cabinet handle overnight and let them drip dry.