One Down, Four To Go

Lisa just came home a few minutes ago. Before she came home she breastfed Lorelei and she did well. She did not get nearly enough in yet, so her feeding tube is still necessary, but hey, there is a start. I guess mother and child have to get used to each other in the breastfeeding department... We'll just take it one step at a time.

Tobias and I got to the hospital at about 7:30 pm. Lisa was already with Lorelei and had been cuddling with her for over two hours! (I envy her...). The nurses figured that since she was scheduled to go home tonight it would be good for her to spend some time with Lorelei. When Tobias and I walked in it just looked wonderful!!!

Then I got to hold her for a while. That was wonderful too. Tobias has always said that Lorelei would like me to sing Mr. Tambourine Man for her, so I did and I have to say, it did seem to soothe her... :-). Anyway, while I was holding her and cuddling she did a fairly sizeable #2... So, I got to clean that too (Lisa and Tobias were somewhere else at the time. I didn't mind at all though... I remember being the first one to change a diaper with Tobias, but with Lorelei that was definitely Lisa, because, well, she was just there all the time... But now I got to do my first on Lorelei and I don't know if this is something many fathers would say, but I loved it... I didn't get to spend nearly enough time with her these past few days because I had to be there for Tobias, put Tobias' new room together, put the furniture in Lorelei's room (all with lots of help from my parents, but still, I had to be there), go back and forth to the hospital and so on.... So, I was more than happy to be with just Lorelei for a while and enjoy a cuddle and... well.... a poopy diaper :-)

Today there was more good news because Lorelei was taken of the IV line. So, no more bad shivers of bad memories (Tobias' hospitalization at 11 weeks...) down my spine.... and... One Down, Four To Go! She still has the feeding tube (as you can see in this picture), the heart and breathing monitor, the O2 saturation probe and the UV lamp hooked up to her. The UV light is doing its work quite well, because the levels of whatever it is its for (I can't remember...) are going down, she is excreting it through her urine. My expectation is that the lamp will go next, then the monitor and probe and finally the feeding tube...

Lisa's home, but now it will be a long wait for Lorelei to come home to us...


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