Guess who's home?

Thursday:

Andrew here: We brought Aaron home last night after the 8:3opm feedings. It was hard to say goodbye to Elliott for the night as we took only Aaron with us, but we couldn't help but be excited. The car ride was pretty good, but it was obvious he didn't like his restraints in the preemie car bed. He did pretty well overnight with sleeping, and took all his feedings well. But we were a little concerned a few times when he was making some grunting noises and sounded uncomfortable...don't think it was pooping either, since it was on and off for a couple of hours. He does have a small portable monitor, though, and it only went off once during the night for a low heart rate that immediately corrected itself. We mainly just enjoyed having the quiet and privacy to love our little boy and hold him for as long as we wanted.

Friday:
Today was Aaron's first doctor's appointment with the local pediatrician. He didn't do so well in the car bed. It didn't help that I made a wrong turn on the way to the doctor's. But he spit up once on the way there, and cried quite a bit. Once we got there, the appointment went well, with the doctor giving us some helpful hints about cleaning around his goopy eyes, and making him more comfortable at home. The only thing that didn't go so well was his spitting up 2-3 times on the exam table. (We might have learned not to feed him right before an appointment.) On the way home, he hardly cried at all, and didn't spit up either.

We have only really had time to make a few phone calls into the hospital to check on Elliott. He failed his car seat test again today, which is frustrating. He has trouble keeping his vitals where they need to be during the test. He seems to be doing well with his feedings though, and they say his bowels are still sounding good, even though he is still having trouble pooping. They were giving him another suppository tonight. Jen will most likely be going alone to visit him tonight, as I stay to watch Aaron. She will be taking one of our new car seats with her to have them try the test on him again...either later tonight or tommorrow. Even though it's all a bit overwhelming still, we are both sure it would be more so to have them both home at once. This is about as good as a transition as we could hope for.

Plus, I can't complain. I just typed that last paragraph one-handed with Aaron sleeping snuggly in my left arm. :)