We are home, and it feels so good! Thursday we said goodbye to Ben's mom which was hard (lots of tears were shed) but we knew she had to get home herself. Spencer was doing well with eating, blood sugars, and he had been off his IV since the day before. His billirubin was going up but not enough to where they were going to put him under the lights. So WHY was he still in the NICU...my point exactly! I talked to the rounding doctor who initially wanted to keep him there one more day for observation, and told him that I thought we should take him home. I could do follow up appointments for his jaundice with his pediatric doctor and if he needed photo therapy we could also handle that at home. Thankfully I was convincing and the NICU doctor gave the okay for discharge. We got me discharged from my room and then were waiting for Spencer. We had to wait till he went "wetties" in his diaper from having his little "manhood" surgery. I have never wanted to see a wet diaper more in my entire life. It took the kid almost 5 hours! Finally around 6:30 pm we were all loaded in the car driving away from the hospital. It felt so good & weird. I was leaving a very controlled enviornment and heading into what seemed like inevitable chaos! I am happy to say we survived our first full day at home, thanks to Ben, and love being all together under the same roof! Life with 3...ready, set, go!
Friday, May 01, 2009
We Are Home
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I am glad that you are both home safe and happy! He is absolutely adorable. Congrats!!!
Good to have him home I'm sure. I hope his jaundice gets better soon, Mason and Milo both had that and I always hated when they had to poke their little feet.
Yay for getting home ALL TOGETHER! Get as much sleep as humanly possible!! I wish I were there to help! I'm excited to see more pictures!
Yeah! You're home. Please let me know what we can do to help out. We would love to have the kids over to play anytime.
I'm so glad you are all home together!! Yippee!! Hope you can settle into life as a Mom of three!! When you have a few minutes (if it EVER happens again right!?!) give me a call! Can't wait to have you guys here this summer!!
He has dark hair! What a cutie. The best part about your blog is that your little pregnancy widget says you still have 19 days to go. Seeing all my friends pregnant and having babies makes me a little envious....but just a little! :-)
I'm so glad everybody is doing well at home now. It is a scary feeling to take a newborn home and begin your new life together, but you can do it!
I love that top picture! So cute!
He is seriously the cutest! I want to just squeeze him- he's adorable. I'm so glad you got to bring Spencer home. I'd love to bring you guys dinner this week (I'll call to set it up). I hope you're feeling good too!
so glad they let you take him home! Hope all is well with him and all of you! Good luck with 3!
So glad you guys are all home and well!
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