DAVIS IS HOME!!!
All three Turners arrived home around 9:30 PM this evening, and our little one is tired, tired, tired. We roomed in with Davis last night; this is where you are set up in one of the hospital rooms, and they bring in your baby for your first night of care. No monitors, no wires, just Davis in his bassinet between two hospital beds where Mom & Dad crashed. We handled everything that the nurses normally handled, because, well, that’s what it’s like when you go home.
This process continued throughout the day, with the nurse on duty checking in occasionally to note Davis’s progress. Since he was still in the hospital, she still had to keep up with feeding times, how much he ate (drank), how long it took, when his last bowel movement was, etc. A little before 5 PM they took Davis down to be circumcised, and he was back in the room before six. Dr. Vines, Kelly’s OB, performed the procedure, and did a marvelous job.
After making sure that Davis had a normal urinary movement post-circumcision, the last few visits by nursing staff and one of the NICU doctors were made, and Davis was released.
As we drove home, Kelly made calls to Davis’s grandparents and one great-grandmother to let them know who we had in the car with us. The car seat is already a place of deep sleep for our little guy, and he stayed put in said seat, which Dad placed in the living room, while we unloaded the car.
Leia has already checked Davis out, while he was still in the car seat. Zane hasn’t gotten too close. We want them to be interested enough to know that this is a little person, but not interested enough that they want to cuddle with said little person. They haven’t been back in his bed since the aluminum foil was put down and they were placed in it by Dad, so hopefully this won’t be something we have to worry about.
That’s it for now, time for bed, next feeding is at 2 AM.
Posted by retrophisch at September 17, 2003 12:05 AMWoohoo! I bet it's a relief having him home.
Posted by: Raena at September 17, 2003 02:22 AM