Guess What?

Guess where we are? Not the heart hospital. Not the public computer in the birth unit. We're at home! In our very own house. Yes, that includes Melissa. Hurray for home.

Bea is still doing really well. She was very, very active today. So much so that the first nurse of the day was at her wits end by the end of her shift. Bea likes to move around and cry a lot (well not actually cry, more of a wail). She moves around so much they've surrounded her body pillows to keep her from migrating across the incubator so quickly. The nurses have indicated she's pretty wild, which is consistent with the discription of her provided by the ultrasound technicians, and doctors and nurses trying to monitor her heart rate. It appears we could really have our hands full. The nurses are very nice and have good intentions, but it currently appears they might not be too sad when vocal and flailing Bea comes home with us.

(Readers note - Melissa has finished her every 3rd hour responsibility and has left me/Matt to wrap up our blog of the day so she can sleep).

Twice when we were there her heart skipped a couple of beeps however she continued to breathe. We're used to tons of false triggers on her heart rate and her respiratory rate, however this was apparently the real thing because the nurse went flying across the room to see what was going on. She only skipped around 5 seconds of heart beats, not nearly enough to be considered apnea, but enough to get Mom & Dad worked up. That was apparently the first time she's done that yet - which is really good because she's at 32 1/2 weeks and has been monitored for nearly two days. Things have been going so well, we're not used to normal responses for a 32 week old girl. Essentially she's not perfect and isn't going to fly through the special care nursery with zero incidents, but she's doing really, really for her age. Mom and Dad would prefer to focus on little issues like does she have crooked toes or bad eye sight and would like to skip past the more major issues we faced in pregnancy, but it looks like we're not going to get a free ride through the special care nursery. That's okay because our expectations were probably becoming a bit to unrealistic.

Melissa's requested first meal at home: Macaroni and cheese (not the cafeteria stuff) with cheese-stuffed hot dogs and a big serving of milk in a glass, not cardboard, followed by vanilla ice cream with her Mom's hot fudge.