I'm a bit late on this! For a good reason though... right now, I'm in our bedroom listening to whimpers and fussing next door.
We were discharged on Thursday after seven long, stressful, and blessed weeks. The girls' first seven weeks of life consisted of temperature - controlled isolates, monitors, feeding tubes, medications, and the constant love and care by amazing nurses.... not quite the life a newborn should experience... but modern medicine is a miracle! We have two beautiful, healthy 6-1/2 pound girls home!!
I don't think anything or any one could have prepared me for that moment of leaving. Moving out of the Ronald McDonald House, packing up the girls' hospital room, and officially leaving Rochester was overwhelming. I came to Rochester January 21st... pregnant and terrified and left Rochester April 2nd... not pregnant, with two healthy girls, and still terrified!! I grew attached to Rochester and Mayo. I'm a proud Mayo employee... and now a very proud patient and mother of patients there. The care we received for the past 11 weeks was more than I ever expected... I will miss that (and the nurses... which I tried to bring one home with me!)
We are doing well at home. I'll be honest,though, we're exhausted. Partially self-induced. I'm hovering over the cribs with any noise they make... and petrified something is always wrong. Rookie mom here!! Please tell me it'll get better??
We have appointments tomorrow to make sure they're gaining adequate weight. They're having a bottle every two hours, so I hope there's a gain!
Anyway, we are doing well, surviving, and kissing these girls constantly! God is good...and power of prayer is awesome!! :-) I'll update as much as possible... but expect shorter posts, and more pictures... if I have long posts, please ignore the nonsense jabbering and influx of grammar/spelling errors!!
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| Think he misses his 20 hour a day naps?? It's a tough job to keep mom and dad company through the night! |
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