On the fence...

We wake up...my eyes are very swollen and red. They brought us Simon during the night...but he's too tired to nurse. They bring him again in the morning...he nurses a little..but still very sleepy.

The Pediatrician comes back and gives us the consent form for the test and his circumcision. She explains the chromosomal test is a pretty big stick in his heel so they'll give him some sugar water to drink while they're doing the test to help him relax. We have lots of visitors again.

One thing is for sure, I certainly feel better as far as the nausea goes. Wow...9 months of throwing up just about every day, then poof, he's out and I'm cured! Bring on the food. The nice thing about our hospital is it's sort of like room service...I get a menu and can order pretty much whatever I want. :) My cousins brought me one of those edible arrangements! OMG!!

Markus' boss and his wife come to visit and bring us a great gift. The story of them picking out the gift makes us laugh, which feels good...to laugh...We had originally registered for your basic baby monitor. When we were looking at them at Target, Markus, of course wanted the video one, the two hundred dollar one! I responded with: "No one is going to buy that! It's two hundred bucks! You're crazy..." So we went with the basic Graco one. Well, low and behold, I opened the gift and there was the expensive video monitor. So the story goes, while they were looking at our registry, his wife finds the Graco one, his boss fins the video one. She says, "Well they registered for that one..." He says: "yeah, well I know Markus wants that one!" and takes it off the shelf...he was right. It's awesome! (and worth every penny!)

Markus takes a walk with them (my room is full of people) and I wonder if he's going to tell them. I visit with our other guests. They come back later and I can tell by the way his boss' wife is looking at me and hugs me that they know. It's nice to have someone else know though.

My best friend finally comes Saturday night. I go through the delivery and open her gift. We chat for awhile. Then I get quiet and ask Mark if I can tell her what's going on. I, of course, lose it and start balling. She hugs me and tells me everything will be fine...That God picked the perfect parents for this little guy. I tell her I think He must have more faith in me than I do.

We sleep better that night. Simon is brought in but won't wake up enough to nurse. We keep him in our room and fall back to sleep. I was nervous about him being in our room overnight while we were sleeping...afraid someone would sneak in and take him...but my ingenious husband comes up with a great floor plan idea. We moved Simon's bassinet over near the window, and moves his recliner (poor guy had to sleep in that!) in front of the door...so basically to get to me or Simon you had to move the chair...with him in it...

Sunday: Time to go home! During the process of getting our stuff together and gettin Simona nd I checked out for the last time by the doctors...Markus had a coughing fit and somehow blew a bloodvessel in his eye...so he's has this blind spot...(which almost 8 months later is STILL there...will he go back to the dr? Of course not! Men!)

Since we thought we had more time until he would be born, we didn't exactly see if the car seat would fit in our van...and of course...it doesn't. So we didn't use the base, and strapped him in the infant carrier and used the seat belt. Off we go with our tiny baby...leaving not at all like we imagined when we arrived just two LOOOONG days before...what a weekend!

Simon left the hospital very jaundice. So throughout the first week, we went back in for weight checks, more needle sticks in his poor little heels, and finally ended up taking home a biliblanket...this thing with LED lights that attaches to his back and wraps around him. He has to wear 24 hrs a day. We nickname him our little glow-worm! It works and soon his count is back to normal.

When we saw our pediatrician we told him about our delivery experience and what the NICU doctor told us. He did some examinations of Simon and tells us very honestly, he doesn't know what to think about the Down Syndrome. He says Simon's muscle tone looks good, his features aren't that prevalent. He of course says he doesn't want to give us false hope, but of course I immediately get hopeful. I'm certain that NICU Dr made a mistake...