Home Again. Home Again. Jiggity Jig.

It’s a big morning for us Scotts. Sean gets to go home today. Mommy gets to go home today. Meredith gets to meet “Baby brother Sean”. Meredith is headed to story time. It’s a beach party today!! So she’s getting all dressed up in bathing suit & heading on over. I wish I could be there with her. I need pictures of my little bathing beauty. The author of a mermaid book. It’s about the mermaids of Brooklyn i think. Anyway, I was so excited to get to go with her to that. As long as she gets to go, that’s what matters. 

Sean & I woke up this morning at about 6ish. He had the granddaddy of all poops in his diaper. Thank goodness he was wearing a diaper that was to big for him or it could’ve been a whole hell of a lot worse than it was. I couldn’t believe so much poop could fit into one little body. But it did. We got him all cleaned up and I gave him breakfast. One boob. Warm, not hot. Might have tasted a lot like chocolate chip cookies. And an oz of formula. 

Sean is having the same problems Meredith had at the beginning with latching on. With Meredith it took a lot of trial & error to figure out the problem. Thankfully this time I just remembered what the issue was. It’s making for a lot more relaxed me. We’ll worry more about nursing when we get home. Right now I’m focused on getting him fed (even if it means formula) and keeping his sugars at normal levels. Which they have been. They’ve consistently been above 100 since yesterday. 

We were told that Sean will be discharged by the doctors by 10am and then it will be up to the nurses’ schedules (rounds, discharges, etc) for what time we get to leave. The pediatrician said probably somewhere around 11am. I’m holding out no hope of that, but we’ll see. With Meredith I think we were out of here by 1ish. So we’ll see. 

I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter. As long as we leave. I can’t wait to get home & hug my little girl!!!!! I can’t wait to go home & pet my puppies or take a shower in my own shower. I can’t wait to get home & “chat” with my Strong Mommas and catch up on all that I have missed. I can’t wait to get home and just be a family of 4. 

Um... I have 2 kids!!!! Holy crap! 

A nurse came in to take Sean to get his vitals done and give him a bath. I was able to go to the bathroom in peace without worrying about him. Another nurse came in to check on me and guess what. I was fine. 

Breakfast came. I had coffee. Oh the gloriousness of coffee. Again, it wasn’t the best I’ve ever had, but it certainly wasn’t the worst. It wasn’t burnt and I had to sugars & milk. I was able to change my clothes, wash up and get ready to start our final leg of this part of the journey. We’re going home. 

One of the nurses brought Sean back and he was sleeping. She said he screamed himself bloody murder when they tried to give him a bath. He just wasn’t having it. So they gave up & brought him back to me. Typical boy already huh? Just wants to be funky. He must get that from Rob. 

Now he’s sleeping peacefully. Rob is home with Meredith and they’re walking the dogs. Then Rob will come here and we’ll go home together. I hope he remembers to bring the outfit he picked out for Sean to wear home. 

I packed 2 outfits for Sean that he could potentially wear home. But in the end, I thought it would be nice to let Rob pick out something for his little boy to wear home. It’s a big deal to have the perfect outfit to wear home. Especially when you have such a big entrance to make when you get there. He has to impress his big sister right? Unfortunately, all of Sean's outfits ended up being way to huge for him> So we picked the one that fit him best. 

I am so curious to see how she is going to react to him. I’m so anxious to see if she’s going to be jealous or what. I hoe the dogs react to him the same way they did with Meredith. Brewster adored Meredith right from the start. Dutchess loved her, but she was more interested in playing with her. Dutchess is still like that, but Dutchess sleeps in Meredith’s room now. I wonder if Brewster will adopt Sean’s room and watch over him the way Dutchess does in Meredith’s room. Who knows? 

At 9:20am, Sean’s nurse came in to go over his discharge with me and it was the same nurse that Meredith had. She said they start the discharge process at 11. I knew we wouldn’t be out of here by 11. Humpf. Oh well. Who cares? I feel like a caged animal. We need to get out of here. 

The pediatrician came at 10:30am and gave Sean the once over. He cleared him for his bris. Yay!!! Now we just had to wait for the nurse to discharge us. 

Rob got to the hospital, but he looked like he was missing something. I couldn’t place what it was so I didn’t say anything. He brought some brunch (BLT & coffee) and we ate. 

The more I though about it....I was right. He forgot the damn car seat in the car. Ha ha ha. Gotta love him! He went back to the car to get it. When he got back a social worker had come to visit & we were already talking. She really listened and was really impressed with what we already had set up for Sean. She gave us some contacts for starting therapy for us. I know I’ve been saying that we’re going to do it, but things have been kind of hectic. 

We were finally given the go ahead to take the little man home. He looked so tiny in his car seat. I know Meredith looked just as tiny in the same seat, but he just looked so small. 

We said goodbye and head downstairs. We stopped at the nicu to get some more binky’s. They have the small ones. And then it was to the car! I was going to walk, but it started to drizzle. So I waited with Sean for Rob to bring the car up. One of the labor & delivery nurses saw us & stopped to chat. 

We loaded Sean into the car and headed home. It was so sweet to see Meredith meet Sean. She is such an amazing little girl. She’s already a great big sister. Even as tired as she was, she was so great with him. She was very curious about who this baby was. She knows he’s “baby brother Sean”, but I think she’s made the connection yet. She was happy to have mommy home with her. She sat with Sean on the couch and just kind of watched him. She kept telling us that he was the “baby”. And she kept telling the dogs “down” when they’d pop up to inspect this new person. 

Eventually she got more cozy with him and wanted him to play with her. She kept saying “down” and then she’d look at him like he was supposed to get down to play. She’s hysterical. When he couldn’t get down to play, she’d play for a few minutes & then come back up to be with him. 

She even shared her stuffed animals with him. Her prized stuffies. It was adorable. We had dinner and she went to sleep. 

Sean is still eating well and we’re still supplementing with formula. I’m terrified of his sugars dipping to low. He did nurse before taking a bottle. Which I was really happy about. I had to pull some maneuvers, but he took the boob and I was grateful. I’m also pumping now since I like my pump. Apparently my breasts weren’t thrilled with the hospital grade pump. I was able to pump some & give it to him with his formula. So at least I know he’s getting more breast milk/colostrum than he was. I hope nursing & pumping gets better. 

Meredith is still sleeping, Rob is washing bottles and I’m getting ready to pump. Hee hee.... Rob is washing bottles. I know he’s happy that he actually gets to participate in feeding Sean. He never got to do that with Meredith. 

Lot’s of pictures to come. I promise.