Home at Last

What an amazing journey we have been on these last 6 weeks! You came home with an apnea monitor that had two leads and then wrapped around your chest. Anytime the leads came unplugged it would alarm with a deafening beep.  It got my heart racing quite a few times. Boy was I happy when we got to take that machine back.

06/06 Our darling pineapple. You ARE a little sweetie! There's your cord sticking out too.

06/09 You only cry when your hangry. Can see the blue band under your onesie?

Everyone commented on how much you looked like daddy. All of your nurses would say she sure looks like her daddy. You even had a space between your first two toes like him. Every once in a while mommy could see herself, and it made her happy when someone said that you looked like me because that didn't happen very often.

One of the most panic inducing moments was going to bed with you in the cradle next to me. I would wake up in a panic, and have to check that you were breathing. Daddy would wake up in a panic because we didn't tell the nurses how much you ate. Daddy was meant to be a nurse.

You were only allowed to have a few visitors in the NICU, so the babies would have a decreased risk for infection. Your parents, Grandpa Ransford (and Nicu your guard dog), Grandma Dayna, Aunt Ann, Aunt Rebecca, Nana, and Uncle Seth were the first ones to see you.

On our way home we stopped by to see your great-grandma Evelyn. She always refers to you as "our baby", because she loves you so much. Once we got home you had a few more visitors. A lot of the family would watch you on NICVIEW, so they felt connected to you and your story.