Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Going home

We're going home from the hospital today. We would have been ready to go home yesterday, but I guess it's standard to stay two nights, and we didn't mind the extra night. My mom stayed at the hospital with me, and Jon went home to rest in something other than a two-foot wide, rock-hard, plastic-covered pull-out chair. Lucy did very well and is eating great, and I got several hours of sleep (woo hoo).

Nate came by with Grammy yesterday to see his sister. He couldn't have cared less about that little baby (except when I held her, and even then he was easily distracted). It was nice to see my little boy; I missed him. (Sad side story: although he was fine on Sunday and Sunday night, Nate got really sick--throw-up sick--at his aunt Janel's house on Monday, and he was still under the weather yesterday. It was hard on Monday being in the hospital with Lucy knowing that Nate was feeling bad... I felt terrible for Janel too, who has her own two kids and now was cleaning up after Nate. Anyway, I think he's doing a bit better now.)

I'm interested to see how the transition to home goes. It's easy to sit and nurse for 30 undistracted minutes in the hospital every two or three hours, but we'll see how that happens in the real world!

P.S. I bought a custom diaper bag on eBay yesterday. It isn't the same one I pictured in the post below, because I found some other ones that include a name embroidered on the bag. Here's the one I got (but of course with my precious Lucy's name!):

2 comments:

Nell said...

Oh, poor Nate! It must be so difficult wanting to care for your little boy and not being able to be there. I love the bag (so cute!) and love that it will have her name on it. I really liked the other one that you had picked out, but I like this one a little better.

Can't wait to hear the labor story!

Sheyb said...

Cute bag. :)

Sorry to hear about Nate being sick! I can totally sympathize with you! When Zoe was in the NICU, I couldn't be around any sick people. So every time Angelina was sick, Mike would have to do everything! I felt terrible that I couldn't help her!
I will pray for your transition home. It is very tough at first, but it gets a lot easier. :)

Looks forward to more pictures of Lucy and her big brother, and hearing the labor story. :)