Saturday, April 21, 2007
I am SO happy and relieved!! Current mood: excited
Today/tonight was great therapy for me and Steven. I had such a good time being around friends and not to mention good mexican food!! Honestly, the highlight of my evening was learning all about the NICU at the Baptist Women's Hospital. I guess I shouldn't say the highlight, but it lifted a HUGE burden off of me.
I work with a guy named Patrick, whose wife Becca works in the NICU. After dinner, I started asking her all kinds of questions about what to expect. The news was great. After I get out of recovery from the c-section, if I don't feel like getting in a wheelchair, they will wheel me to the NICU on a stretcher to let me see Macy Jane. (I am bound and determined to get in that wheelchair though) Becca says that by the time I get back there, she should be stabilized by then. After that, Steven and I are welcome back there 24 hours a day, with the exception of shift change at 7am and 7pm. There can be 2 people back there at a time. We will give them a sheet with 4 peoples names on it and they will be able to go back there even if me and Steven aren't there. Otherwise, any visitors that want to see her have to be escorted back by me or Steve. The only people allowed to touch her without gloves on are me and Steven, but that's okay. If her immune system is messed up, people don't need to be touching her anyways. Becca also said that if a bed is available by the window, they can put her there and if my godkids or other children (or sick adults) wanted to see her, they would raise the blinds so they could get a look. Ya'll just don't know how happy all of this information makes me!
I am not going to be the obsessive parent that stays back there 24 hours a day because I know what that is like. There are times that you just want to be able to do your job without the family members around, I get like that at work at times too. My family is going to MAKE me get out of the hospital on a regular basis so that we don't go nuts. I just can't believe that me and Steve can go back there together as much as we want. God is definately good!!!!!
We received so many wonderful gifts for Macy Jane today, also. There isn't too much stuff left on our registry! We received a lot of duplicate stuff, but that is okay because that means we can take it back and get our baby monitor and some little things that we need. When I say little.......I mean hairbows and headbands. I'm just amazed at how giving people are.
Well, I forgot to take my camera so we stopped and got a disposable one. So now, I have to wait and get those developed. I promise I will post some pics of me preggo before I am not preggo anymore. Everyone keeps messaging me that they want pictures, lol. Patience.
I am quite tired and I noticed a little while ago that my feet are really swollen tonight. They have never ever been this big before.........I guess it is a true sign that the end of my pregnancy is coming closer and closer. Amen, hallelujiah