What a day

So Marcus and I headed up to the NICU this morning with plans to talk to his Dr. We arrive and get the feeding report which was excellent. But then when we asked about speaking with Dr. White we hear that he won't be in until the afternoon. So we spend some time with the little guy and discuss our action plan for the day. We decide to get the errands that we needed to complete crossed off our list. So we head to Target to purchase some much needed baby items (diaper pail, hamper, hand sanitzer) while at Target my phone rings and I look at the number and see it's the NICU. Now of course immediatley my heart sinks to my stomach as I decide if I want to answer. I of course answer and it's the discharge coordinator who I've never spoken too heart quickly gets back into place and my mind starts whirling. She explains that going home is in the talks and that when we come for his 2o'clock feeding that we should bring his carseat in so he can get fitted and make sure he is able breath properly while in it. But reminds me that no orders have been written for his to go home it's simply in the works. So we head home to get a few items and look in our fridge and realize we are lacking adequate food choices meaning we really had no food. So back to Target we go to get some essentials and also head over to Babies R Us to make sure we have all that we need to care for our lil guy.

We arrive to the NICU and go through the standard hand washing procedures and get Ian ready for his feeding. In order to get our lil guy to eat we have found you must strip him down to his diaper. So the stripping begins and a diaper change happens. A bottle with my milk is handed over and Marcus begins the feeding in which he shows off his improved eating abilities. During feeding his nurse brings over a bag to start bagging his personal belongings and in a matter of 4 days the kid manage to go home with my purse full of items, he diaper bag overflowing and 1 hosppital bag that would barely shut. Next Dr White comes over and gives the official word of his going home and our instructions for home. So we start dressing him in his coming home outfit which was way to big for our lil guy but that's ok.


Up next is the discharge nurse who fits him in his carseat and hooks him up to the breathing monitor they monitor his breathing in a car seat for a 1/2hr before releasing. (Sorry just turn your computer or your head to look at the pic in the right direction)

She goes over more at home stuff and then once the monitoring was complete she walks us out to the car with him and his bags of belongings.

We made it home safe and sound Marcus mentioned how when we were waiting to turn on our road that he was constantly looking in the mirrors to make sure everyone saw us waiting to turn and that they weren't going to hit us.

Alright it's eating time for the lil guy.

Side Note: the Bachelor starts tonight, let's see if we like what Jake has to choose from.