9-3-2010
Anyhow, we had been told we would be getting a call from the doctor at some point during that day. To discuss if they wanted to send him home or keep him longer. I had an appointment for myself in the morning and asked my other dad to take me because we only have one vehicle. After the appointment we headed for lunch. Why is it that when your about to eat the phone rings? I look at who is calling and it's the hospital! YES! I've been waiting all morning, finally. The doctor discussed Nick's status and went over the past two weeks, I asked questions and to be honest can't remember what they were. She asked me what I wanted to do? I told her whatever is in the best interest of Nicholas. She told me that he could come home on a heart monitor or spend another month in the hospital. I told her I would discuss what we were going to do with my husband and family and would get back to her in an hour. Anthony wanted him home as soon as possible, I was weird because the heart monitor and words CPR scared me. Mum and dad wanted what was best for baby Nick. We decided to bring him home with the monitor.
9-4-2010
We're coming home! Anthony had to work in the morning and kicked off early. I had texted with my other mum and dad all day, and decided they should come along to relearn CPR and the heart monitor. We needed someone other than Anthony and myself to understand things in case we had an emergency and had to leave Nicholas with someone. Christian wanted to learn CPR (never too young to learn) so he came along as well. My other dad asked if I had ever been to the spaghetti warehouse? We hadn't. He offered to take us to dinner there! We decided we'd go after we left the hospital because we had a scheduled appointment for classes at 3pm. We got there started packing up Nick's room, signed a million papers, and took our class. They explained what beeps meant. There are different sounds for different problems. Basically the machine's beeps is a smoke alarm on steroids! It was so much to take in a short amount of time, and very over whelming. Nick got hooked up to his machine. It was a strap about two inches wide and went around his chest. Two paddles on each nipple, white on the right and black on the left (white is right). Then it plugged into a wire that plugged into the machine. He was set! It was interesting and felt kind of nice to have a wonderful life saving device with all the hype over SIDS.
It was time! Time to place all 4 pounds of baby Nick into his car seat. Oh my goodness I lost him in there! Such a tiny baby in a huge carseat! I had brought along plenty of blankets and his head rest. They wouldn't allow us to use his head rest because they are known to cut of air ways. We gathered our bags took a family picture and off we went. Of course it had to be raining, actually pouring, we were having a nasty thunderstorm.
Most babies go home during their 'home coming' well this little guy went to his first restaurant. The spaghetti warehouse. We covered Nick with blankets to keep people and germs away. Baby Nick was very quite and we enjoyed our supper. After we ate we all headed home. Anthony did not take the highway, so it took us a little longer to get home than usual. My little nanny Christian checked on Nick several times, and would say okay mom he's alright, still sleeping. Felt nice having such a caring boy.
We're almost home when...we get an alarm!!! The monitor was screaming! Pulled over and ran out of the car as if it was on fire! It was nothing but a dead battery, phew. The teacher said the battery should last for eight hours, but it only lasted three. After some time I found out the batteries should last twenty-four hours. Which it did and then some. We had a few nights when I forgot to plug in and was woken up to the 'dead battery' beep.
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