Day 4 was an exciting day! Dr. Thackeray stopped by first thing in the morning (well, not first thing for us... we'd been up since the first thing in the morning 12:01am), gave us the go ahead on the going home. He made sure we didn't want to stay a day longer this time, but for some reason, that was not on my list of things I wanted to do this time. I was very anxious to get home. I decided it's because we have our own home now! Almost all the other times, I had to come home to places I was wishing we were weren't coming home to :). Negative Nelly. Anyway! We got all excited and started cleaning up and packing to go home! The nurses started rolling in, helping us get things all finished up- taking off Molly's sticker of death, and gave us some forms to sign. They told us they could have us out of there by 11:00! WAHOO!
So I called Nate. We wanted to have him here and ready to go the minute they discharged. My mom came to the house and watched Jack. All was going well and then the nurse came in and gave me the bad news that it would be more like 1:00 or 2:00 before the Pediatrician could come and give us the okay to go. RATS!!!! I was totally bummed. Nate was already on his way, so he just came anyway. And we waited. There really wasn't much left to do.
I did try to take a few pictures of Molly. I'd been wanting to do a hospital shoot like we did with Sarah for Jack and Erika, but it just wasn't happening. Things were just not falling into place. Even the sheets weren't white! So we decided we'd just wait til we get home to get some of those shots... I'm still bummed about that.
I do love this picture though... so precious!! That blanket turned out to match her little go home outfit perfectly with the pink and gray! So cool :)
When it was almost 2:00 the nurse came back in and informed us that the pediatrician was going to be even later and now we were looking at not getting out of there until 5:00 or 6:00!! WHAT?!!! Look at Molly's charts! She's the picture perfect baby! Had ZERO problems the entire time we were there! Temps were perfect, eating was better than perfect, she passed all her tests, never had to go down to the nursery for ANYTHING but routine stuff, and even all her poopings and peeings were on schedule!!! WHY DO THEY EVEN NEED A PEDIATRICIAN TO CLEAR HER!!!! We were ticked. It's so funny to be in the opposite situation that we were in a few years earlier... I think it was with Noah, I got discharged, but Nate was not off work yet, so I sat in the empty room, they took all the linens, cleaned the whole place up with us in there watching tv, and then eventually sent us out to the waiting room. They wouldn't let us leave the floor of course because they have to watch you put them in your car, but we were kind of like orphans for a little while :). So this was a funny change of scenery. Asking the nurse how much trouble we could possibly get in if we just left without the okay. Kicking ourselves for not leaving the day before. We'd decided we didn't want to have to come back to get my staples out... dumb decision. So anyway. We waited. Impatiently... but we waited.
She finally showed up around 6:00, luckily I'd ordered dinner- that was still free and came to me while we waited. She apologized when she got there, so we didn't feel right about chewing her out, but I got very restless while she was talking about who knows what... just shootin' the breeze it felt like... I wanted to go home!!! I pretty much dragged us all out of there in the middle of her shpeel...
Not loving the car seat.
But she did really well once she realized she was staying in it. And we did put a blankie on her.. made it a little more cozy. I just think it's so cute to see their tiny little bodies in these huge car seats.
We pulled up and there was a fun sign waiting for us on the door! Cute kids!
And lots of fun big sibs waiting to hold their sister again!
It was a lot of fun to have Emily, Lisa, and Jami show up as well. They got to see her and hold her for the first time. These three have been key in getting me through this pregnancy. I don't know what I would have done without good friends this time. It was not an easy road! They have been so loving and supportive though.
Will gave Molly the nickname "Molly-pop" so cute!
Erika was THRILLED to have her sister home!! I think now she is just counting down the days until we can put her little sister in her room with her!!
And once everyone left, the evening was pretty much over. Kind of a drag since I'd planned on getting home much earlier and having time to play, but oh well. The next day was Saturday- we could play then!
She was finally home with us!! Sure seems unreal. Such a blessing to have had things go so smoothly and to be able to bring home a perfectly healthy baby. I couldn't be more grateful.
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