And Then There Were Five

So this weekend was non-stop starting Saturday morning. Our plans were for us to meet my parents in Dothan to pick up Mackenzie from them. They were going down there to watch the Auburn/Alabama game at Ben's parents house (Ben is Elizabeth's fiance). Early Saturday morning I called to check on Avery and her feedings. This was right after I wrote the last post. I was depressed about her feedings. I felt as if she'd never make it. Well she did so well Friday night that I got a phone call from her Dr. Saturday morning telling me that I could spend the night at the hospital and she could room in with me and I could bring her home today (Sunday). Boy was I excited! When I told Lee I started crying.

We left and went to Dothan and did some quick shopping w/ mom at the Target for her some Newborn size clothes since the 0-3 months are WAY too big. We got Mackenzie back with us, which felt really good. She sure did miss Jackson and the feelings were mutual. They hugged and hugged and hugged. Then we drove back listening to the big football game which made me sick to my stomach. At one point I even turned off the radio. I couldn't stand listening to the game. Thankfully I didn't listen to all of it, otherwise I'd of been sick. We drove straight to the hospital and they dropped me off around 5:30 or so.

I went upstairs to see the little booger and she had eaten at 4. I got her already to do the car seat test. She had to sit in the car seat for 1 hour and her pulse ox could not go below 80. I didn't stay for the entire hour but instead went down to the wonderful cafeteria to get something to eat as I was starved. First of all their cafeteria isn't half of what Sacred Heart's is. Secondly the food did not look that great except for the chicken fingers. They are the same ones that I loved at Sacred Heart. So I had a dinner of chicken fingers and a piece of pie. I have to say I've had better pie too.

Around 6:45 the two of us girls got all settled into our room. She was in her bassinet and I was in the very uncomfortable bed. I was so sure that I would get zero hours of sleep last night but I was suprisingly able to sleep in between her feedings. I didn't sleep as good as she did but I slept better than expected. She got up at midnight, 3:15am and 6:30 to eat. Not too bad. The Dr. and Pam, her nurse, went over the discharge instructions with me while I waited for the kids and Lee show up to pick me up. When they got there around 10:15 the kids were so excited. I took her to the back part of the nursery so they didn't have to wash their hands. They were so glad to see her. Lee didn't want to put her down.

So we survived the hour ride home. I just fed her and she's laying beside me all swaddled up and passing gas. Just like her sister in the mornings minus the swaddled part. We're all together. Our family of five. Our perfect family. Oh man, what have I gotten myself in to?