Going Home...

Tomorrow is the big day for all of us as Nicholas gets to come home. We've been busy "nesting" and think we are now ready. We took the pictures attached as we were leaving the hospital tonight. This is the last night Nicholas will spend in this corner and in this bassinet. He is eating from the bottle well and in fact, took 60 cc three times today. He is now up to 5lbs 13 ounces. He will be going home on a little oxygen (1/16 of a liter). We will see pulmonary in two weeks and hope to be off the oxygen in a month or two. We'll have many follow-up appointments with general surgery (hernias), opthamology (eyes) and pulmonary (lungs) as well as visits to his pediatrician and home visits from physical and occupational therapy. So, while we're closing one chapter, we're opening a whole new one full of new experiences. We'll get into a new routine at home; our biggest hurdle will be being mobile with the O2, oh and lack of sleep (Melissa and Regan (Nicholas's primary nurses at Rainbow) are more than welcome to fly to Madison and help with those feeds they were never able to do or accomplish well due to a sleepy baby after too much cuddling:)). We'll keep updating the blog so you can continue to monitor Nicholas's growth and milestones . Thanks to everyone for your continues prayers, support and thoughts throughout our 3 month journey (my water broke on December 25th and we're going home on March 25th).