Wow, I've been out of touch. It began to dawn on me just how much I have been, when I began receiving phone calls and emails wondering where I was, if we were all right, how was Savannah doing, etc.
We're all fine; we're all great in fact. We've just all been consumed lately with so many things... Let me try to catch everyone else up.
In my last entry, I had mentioned the possibility of getting job here at home, and how great it could be. Well... I got the job, and have been spending a lot of my time online to working on that. Ironically enough, I spend enough time on the computer 'working', that I was hardly motivated to spend any extra time keeping up with my journal, or my site. And I promise to work on that. I'm making extra time right now to sit down with you, and fill you in. And I will make a point of it, so I don't get terrified emails and phone calls about us.
Also, my parents, sister and nephew came to visit two weekends ago, and we had a wonderful time. It was way too short, but we were so lucky to have them come. Nicholas is a sweetie, and he got to meet his brand new cousin, Savannah too. It was indescribably cute, with Nick patting her head gently, showing her all of her stuffed animals, and kissing her forehead before he left. He couldn't have been kinder to her, especially for a little boy just short of three years old!
And now, the long awaited Savannah update... Things are going very well. She began taking a feeding or two a day from a bottle! And as of this writing, she's up to HALF of her feedings in the day on the bottle. She's not on any kind of medicine anymore, and she's up to four pounds three ounces. She's in an open crib, and able to wear clothes now too. She looks so sweet. There are only two more things she needs to accomplish before she can come home.
Savannah needs to be able to take all her feedings by bottle, every day. And in meeting that goal, she's already halfway there. Secondly, she needs to have surgery, at the hospital next door. As we have discovered that she has a small non-self-correcting hernia. And they want to take care of that before she comes home too.
Doctors and nurses have mentioned that she will probably only be at the hospital she is in right now for less than two weeks more. And that the surgery and recovery across the street should take no more than three or four days. So, in my best estimation, Savannah will _probably_ be arriving for her homecoming around the beginning of July!
I'm completely ecstatic and terrified at the same time.
There are also a few more things that they will need to do for her in the meantime, to determine if she will need to come home with a monitor, or any other special things. And we need to go and take an infant CPR class, which we have scheduled for this coming Saturday.
We went shopping yesterday, and bought diapers, wipes, formula and bottles. I can't believe this is coming up so fast, even after having to wait all this time...
I'm feeling so ready and so completely unprepared right now. And I can't even fathom how cool it will be to be able to be with her all the time, snuggle with her, watch her sleep... in our own home.
I know way more about premature babies than I ever wanted to know in my life, but I have so much more to learn about being a mommy and being able to take care of Savannah with just Wallace and I. I'm so happy and excited. She will probably be just over three months old when we can take her home, and I am so ready to finally be a full-time mommy to Savannah. I will be so lucky to be able to love her right here with me, instead of from afar.
Posted by lara at June 14, 2000 03:47 PM