Great News! Big News! Great Big News!!!

Hey all-- Sorry no photo for this post but I'm sure there will be a photo-op or two later today because SHE'S COMING HOME!!

I'm not normally an all-caps kind of guy but in this instance it's really the only way for me to put it. Yesterday they came around and gave her a clean bill of health, as it were, and we could have come home yesterday except we were so unprepared! We've got lots of baby clothes, but virtually nothing that's sized for a 4 pound baby (and even some of the under-4 lb stuff out there still fits her like a tent), so we needed to go shopping so we didn't have to bring home a naked baby. She'd have been cold in the car seat! After a whirlwind of shopping we had the essentials we needed (although even so-called "baby" stores had basically nothing for premature babies- what's up with that?).

It's always been inspiring to see a car seat come into the ward. It means a baby is going home. Today, we'll get to bring our own in and soon we'll be together at home.

She'll still have the tube in, and we'll still have to "top her up" from time to time, but the staff at the hospital has decided that since we do almost all of her care anyway, we might as well do it from the comfort of our own home. The Community Neonatal team will come by and check in on us every other day or so, to check that she's doing well and help us strategize getting her off the tube.

Ok, all for the moment, I've been on too many airplanes that didn't land where they were supposed to, or didn't take off, or turned around, to be absolutely sure of anything so I'd better not jinx it. I'll go for now, and I'll post again once she's safely here at the house.