Wednesday post - a day late.

The transition home for me was a bumpy one on Tuesday. At the HD Hospital they seperate the patients who do not have access to their kids to a seperate floor because it isn't very warming to see everyone elses kids go floating my in their cribs for bonding time. At any rate, apparently my doctor forgot that I was not on the regular post partum floor as the girls are in NICU. When he called to check my status in the morning for discharge purposes the nursing staff on that floor stated there wasn't anyone there by that name so he presumed I had been discharged the day before. At around 330pm I was discharged... only 8 hours after I had planned and having missed 3 changing/feeding sessions with the girls. All is good now, as we had amazing bonding sessions with the afterwards.

The bilirubin (sp?) lights were turned off this morning. The levels will continued to be monitored and should they rise again to unacceptable levels they will be placed under them again. Alexandra made the best of her new found time in the shade by sleeping through most everything going on around her. Annellice on the other hand decided to get a bit fussy b/c the temperature was a bit cooler without the warm glow of artificial light. The Neonatologist informed me that they would likely be removing Annellice from the incubator and to an open air crib. He warned that if she did not respond well b/c of the excess noise in NICU that she would be moved to the Progressive Care Nursery (PCN) without her sister. While we want nothing more that our girls to get healty quickly we also would like them to be together, so we are crossing our fingers that they will hit all the necessary milestones together.
On another note, the Alexandra's IV was placed on her head overnight. She had pulled it out of just about every other location and the head provided the next best available vein. At first glance it looks very scary but it is what is best for her and her little overactive body. The nurses informed me that should the IV come out on either one of them again they likely will not replace them as that are taking in enough breastmilk via the feeding tube that the do not really need the supplement of the IV.

The kangaroo session was different that normal this evening. Typcially we have been limited to 30-60minutes b/c the girls needed to be under the lights. With the lights now gone the sessions were elongated to nearly 2 hours and longer! Had I known is was going to be that long I would have gone to the bathroom first. It was fun none the less despite the tiredness we felt after getting home at nealry 11pm.