Pics of Dougie

Here he is...
                                     

Dougie is home!!!

We got to leave the hoapital today, Dougie is a whopping 4lb2oz...;)  eating like a champ, and he is doing great...have to go pick up DD and surprisse her!!! 

So much to do...so little time!

LOL, this is the last time that I leave everything until last minute.  Technically we didn't wait unti lthe last minute as DD came at a more "normal" time...but babies don't wait!  Especially when my body had been preparing for months.  One of the nurses on last night kept commenting on how DS is a complete miracle...her DS was born at 34 weeks and was in a level II nursery until he was 40 weeks (he had many issues, she had the same thing that I did but her DS didn't tolerate things well). 

DS had his circumcision yesterday, carseat test is today, and I have been hearing rumors that he will come home today!  If not, I am guessing he will be home tomorrow.  I am in a frenzy doing all of my nesting that I didn't have the chance to do when I was pregnant (thankfully I didn't as I am sure things would have happened sooner as I was out of breath just getting up to use the bathroom). 

I talked to an awesome nurse last night (same one that had the DS in the hospital until his EDD) and mentioned that I was scared to get pregnant again (not like it is an easy occurrence for me though) as if this happens again I could get Pre-e and HELLP syndrome again (VERY likely) and that freaks me out.  DH wants to talk about it all again after we hear about the condition of the placenta that they sent off (curious about that).  If things look ok and my OB gives us the go ahead I will ask him to send me back to the infertility doc. 

I sit here and wonder if I have long term liver damage?  LOL, funny that I ask that as I had no concern on my drinking binges in my early 20's...:)  Amazing how things change when children are born...:):):)

Off to move some clothes to the dryer (crib sheets, bedskirt, baby clothes, etc)...

I don't like crappy nurses.

So I had an 830 feeding tonight, the baby decided to poop all over the place while he had been BF for a few minutes.  I changed his diaper (long process as it was nasty) and the nurse had gotten a bottle ready for me.  So instead of finishing up BF I gave him the bottle.  He wasn't too interested, he finished almost all of it but the nurse had to feed the rest to him in his NG tube.  That will set us back a day or so on discharge.  It made me so mad that she had to do that as the other nurses that have been on shift the last few days (minus one nurse) had no issues. 

I have to remember that 1 or 2 extra days in the level II nursery won't matter in the long run but it sure does hurt me now...:(  Hoping that my next feeding in 30 minutes goes much better...

ICLW...:)

Thanks to all the ICLW-ers that have stopped by my blog the last week...much appreciated!  As many of you can understand I haven't had the time to stop by many blogs since ICLW started to comment...I did however comment before it started on quite a few blogs..guess it was my body telling me to get to work before I knew what was going to happen.  Just like I called around about circumcision before I knew I would go into labor 4 hours later and that our green team baby was a boy...LOL  Mother's intuition?  I am beginning to think so now. 

So again...thanks for stopping by, next time I sign up I swear to comment 2+ times!  :)  Off to shower and visit my prince in the hospital...another long day!  That is fine though as this is my job until I have to go back to work...:(  Sucks as my maternity leave is going to dwindle down to nothing and then before i Know it I will be back at work...poop.   

One step closer to home...

A nurse practitioner told me the other day to call my insurance company to see if they would pay for a lteral transfer to a hospital closer to my house.  I called and the insurance company agreed!  As long as everything goes well tonight and tomorrow we will get that transfer tomorrow at 3:30pm!  When I say closer to my house I mean it is literally 5 blocks...:) 

Another nurse was talking to me today and said that she wouldn't be surprised if he is released sooner than we all thought, he is eating like a champ and that is what holds preemies back from an early release...:)  As long as he bottle feeds well then I am guessing we have less than a few weeks to bring home that little man!  The last 4 days hav e been just awesome.  Minus the spinal headache that pops up every now and then...

He continues to astonish the docs and nurses...:)

Baby Dougie has only made progress since he was born.  He is doing great on feedings (BF champ already!), IV was taken out today, and he is just the greatest baby!  I really feel lucky...Today I saw a full-term baby being admitted to the special care nursery and not even an hour later she was being rushed to the NICU.  It is amazing how fast things can change. 

One of the hardest things I have had to deal with is leaving the hospital without my baby.  I cry quite a bit every day when I have to leave.  It is amaxing that I was able to stay at the hospital all weekend (in a special parent room for babies in the special care nursery).  Yesterday was the first day that I left, made me a bit nervous as I was scared they wouldn't have enough milk....they did though.  When I went in this morning the nurse explained that he was pretty upset that mom wasn't there to provide some boobie satisfaction.  That first feeding (5am this morning) he was ravenous!  They fed him through a tube in his nose, but that just didn't do it for him.  LOL.  He did great all day, they keep increasing his food volume (through the tube) and I let him breastfeed.  I am guessing that they will change the volume of his feeding again as I am giving him a lot from breastfeeding, depends on how long I BF how luch they will give through his tube.

Great news today...no more IV!  I was told that they were thinking of taking it out this evening and that if there was an issue with it before that then they wouldn't restart an IV, they just tested his blood sugar a few times to make sure he was doing ok without the IV and he was!  The IV had started to leak, took me a few minhutes to figure out why I smelled like vitamins....his IV was leaking all over me. 

Gotta get to pumping, once more then wake up super early to get ready to go spend all day with my prince...