Team Thad: Sunday, June 9, 2013

Another uneventful day! We watched our infant crying video, gave Thad a bath (actually did that Saturday night), and just generally hung out with Thad and prepared for discharge. My sister-in-law's sister, Allison, was our nurse that day, and my brother Barry, wife Megan and their little boy stopped by on their way back home.  We got the car seat base put back in the car, cleaned and organized it a little bit after the kids had ridden back there with the grandparents, and tried to relax before our night of confinement in the PCU room. In the Parent Care Unit room, your baby spends the night in the room with you, off monitors, but the baby can't leave the room so one of you has to be there all the time. Which meant Wade had to go out and get breakfast for me, etc. 

It was so nice to have Thad with us...and not connected to wires! However, he was a hungry little munchkin and was awake every 1.5 hours to eat. It took at least 30 minutes by the time I changed his diaper, checked his temp, and charted it all along with how long he nursed, etc. Then I would just get into bed and doze off when the nurse would come in to check on him and look at the charts! Needless to say it wasn't a restful night, but nevertheless, still wonderful to know our boy was healthy and headed home.