She took her whole bottle last night and at 9 this morning. She had a bath and has crazy hair this morning. The night nurse described her as having a fussy time throughout the evening much like what happened the night we slept here. So maybe evenings are her fussy time.
She looks really good this morning.
1100 hours. 11am
Discharge tomorrow!! We have to do baby seat test, CPR class and g tube placement. Busy day. And oh by the way our power went off this morning. Hmm. I know I paid the bill...
She looks really happy!
-Adam
10pm.
Today was long and eventful. We got a brain overload of information that I think has overwhelmed me a bit. I hate it that I'm having trouble being all rainbow-happyland about Aubrey coming home tomorrow; as it is, I'm trying to keep from crying (ok, I might have cried some already). I think it's just the fear of the unknown coupled with all the extra stuff we're going to have to deal with every day that wasn't an original part of the baby plan. We'll bring her home on a heart rate/apnea monitor and a feeding tube, which meant we had to be taught how to use those today. Then we had to get all our discharge info, learn how to put the tube into her nose and down to her stomach (traumatic for all involved), learn infant CPR (terrifying in and of itself), learn how to give her medicines (three) through the tube. I'm just worried that I'll do something wrong. I don't want to be the one to mess her up after she's come so far, you know? I'm sure once she's home and I can get everything organized and in a routine that I won't feel so out of sorts. Maybe. After a week or two. Or a month or two.
Aubrey passed her car seat test with flying colors. The baby has to sit in her car seat for at least 30 minutes (or however long it will take them to get home) without dropping her sats or her heart rate. The nurse said Aubrey was happy just sitting there watching people go by for a little while, then she went to sleep. The nurse left her in the car seat while she slept, so she stayed in it for over an hour and never dropped her heart rate or sats once. That's comforting.
So now, after rushing home and getting the car seat base installed, the pack and play set up downstairs, and bottles and formula sort of organized, I'm going to try to go to sleep. Might be the last full night of sleep I get for a while.
-Keli
Lots of babies are fussy in the evenings for a little while. I don't know that anyone knows why, really, and it's probably different for every baby, but I distinctly remember dreading evenings when Caleb was a baby.
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