Christian Momma

We went to the hospital tonight!! Kevin went up first, he got to feed Daniel tonight! Then after he was done, he came down to the lobby and I went up and got to feed Andrew. Of course I got diaper duty again tonight too, but that’s ok!

I did get to meet the resident that is on for the month. She’s really nice. She stopped in to see if I had any questions or anything. So I had asked her what we are looking at as far as them coming home. She said that they need to gain a little more weight and learn to eat from a bottle and then they can come home. Well, since neither of them have a feeding tube any longer, they are learning to eat from the bottle now…and might I mention doing wonderfully! And they’ve gained weight too, but I know they need to gain more. Daniel weighs 3 pounds 6.6 oz; Andrew weighs 3 pounds 4.8 oz.

After talking with one nurse, she told me that if there were things to get done before the boys get home that I need to start getting it done because it looks like they’ll be coming home soon!! That really made me happy! She said don’t be too surprised if they say something about them coming home sometime this week!!! OMG! That’s soon! I’m not going to get my hopes up too high though, but to me that sounds very promising! (And again that came from a nurse, not the dr).

So, this week/weekend we are focusing on getting stuff done around here…finishing up with the baby room (I have clothes scattered everywhere, the crib is still in the toddler bed, etc.) I also need to get a pediatrician lined up…I have one in mind, but I need to find out if our insurance covers them and if they are taking new patients…I’ll have 4 to add!!

I’m a little nervous, but it’s so exciting to know that they may be home soon!!

EDITED TO ADD: The resident told me that as soon as they hit 2,000 grams (not sure the pound/ounce yet), they can come home!! YEAH!!

Now for my mini-vent!!!
When we got to the hospital, I sat down with the boys in the lobby (due to the no one in the hospital under the age of 14 due to the flu/RSV season). So we sit there and there was a lady (I’m assuming grandma) with a young girl down there too. Well, this little girl is hacking…BADLY!! And of course she’s not covering her mouth. I was very nervous, since we were sitting in the same area. When they got up and went to the gift shop, I was a bit relieved. Then they came back and the little girl had a balloon that said “It’s A Girl”. So I’m thinking, ok, her mom just had a baby. Well, they gather up their stuff and go to the elevators…ok…NO ONE UNDER 14 is allowed to visit. So while they were gone, I took my boys over to the gift shop for a piece of candy. When I got back…guess who was back, hacking?!! So I picked up our stuff and we moved over to the cafe’. The lady in the gift shop had mentioned something about that little girl and how she shouldn’t be here…I said yeah, that’s all I need is to be sick with my babies in the NICU! I’m not a doctor, but man did this little girl’s cough sound pretty deep in her chest…and there’s sick people walking all around in the lobby too! I just can’t understand why you would bring a sick child to the hospital! Not to mention the fact that she went up to visit someone…I’m assuming on the maternity floor! As we were leaving later on, the staff at the front desk were complaining about that child. One of the ladies had said to the “grandma” that she needed to take her out of the hospital, and I guess the “grandma” said that she just had a slight cold! Slight cold?? A slight cold is a little runny nose…not a deep cough that you are talking about getting medication with codeine in!! UGH!! Why don’t people get it??

I feel…: excited