Fast times and wild living with (the former) Baby Whozit…
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 31st, 2006
Just found these pictures from Simon’s last day in the hospital. He’s a week-and-a-half older now and much less yellow, but I thought they were pretty funny and I wanted to post them. Looks a little like Winston Churchill in the rightmost one, doesn’t he? We shall fight on the beaches…we shall nevah surrendah!
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 21st, 2006
I’ve learned three things about hospitals over the past few days: Hurry Up and Wait! Hospitals are some of the slowest places on earth. We arrived yesterday at about 11:30 after a phone conversation with the NICU that suggested Simon was ready to go. Four hours later we were still waiting. Information does not flow […]
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 19th, 2006
We just got back from the hospital, and the neonatologist told us that she has filled out the discharge paperwork for tomorrow afternoon. Simon is still remarkably jaundiced (he was practically green last night), but he spent all of today under the UV light and his numbers are going down. Everyone’s thrilled…except for Simon — […]
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 18th, 2006
Jessica and I were discharged from the hospital earlier this evening. It wasn’t easy leaving Simon behind, but we weren’t really too worried about him and we knew he was in good hands in the NICU. After a trip to the 24-hour pharmacy to fill a Percocet prescription and a quick bite to eat, we […]
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 18th, 2006
I just sang Simon to sleep with a croaky version of “I’m So Tired”. Seemed appropriate for both of us.
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 18th, 2006
We both got about two hours sleep last night, so we’re trying to crash as much as we can before they throw us out later tonight.
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 17th, 2006
Simon was taken off of the oxygen this afternoon, and has been moved to a less critical ICU ward. He looks great without all the stuff in his face and has even been breastfeeding (somewhat). We don’t want to get our hopes up, but we’d like to think that there is now much less reason […]
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 17th, 2006
Simon is doing very well today, but he is still up in the NICU. The doctor has said that it is definitely amniotic fluid in the lungs.
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 17th, 2006
Simon spent a rotten night in the Neonatal ICU last night. I went up to spend some quality time with him about 3:30AM, and while I was rubbing his back the poor little guy managed to pull half the tubes out of his nose and set off every alarm in the place. Not how we […]
Posted in Hospital Fun, Matthew on Oct 16th, 2006
Wow! What a day. Things got moving fast this morning (see below) and stayed that way until Simon popped out into the world at 1:48 this afternoon. I’ll save blogging about the delivery itself for Jessica when she gets home, except to say it was absolutely amazing. — About two hours after Simon was born, […]