Final days of the hospital stay

Hi there,

We appologize for the late entry, but life as you know it can get pretty busy when you're getting ready to head home with your newest addition. Picking up where we left off, Camden did indeed survive the circumcision...as did his daddy who was given the ultimate task of "sugar water soother" while the doctors did what they do best. He passed with flying colors and much to dad's amazement, it was the best circumcision he's seen done yet (out of 2). The beauty of it all, was that after something so traumatic as having your privates trimmed, your child tends to go into self repair mode. In that I mean he basically shut himself down for about 12 hours to reel back from the mini surgery, only waking up long enough to grab a quick snack from the dairy bar. If only they made something like that for toddlers that came in candy form...there are days most of us would be the first in line to buy it just for a few hours of peace and harmony.

Things after that went along fairly well. Mom and baby were getting their schedules down, we were roommateless, and we were on track to go home. That night, the nurse comes in and says Camden is looking a little "orange" around the gills, so they recommended a blood test to see if he was getting as juandiced as he looked. A few hours later, his #'s came in below the mark that would have sent him to a 4 hour tanning session...so we dodged that bullet as well. We decided not to rush home and stay the extra night.

Of course our lucked changed and we received another roommate. A college aged lady giving birth to her first boy and boyfriend in tow. Didn't take a rocket scientist to see she was quite unprepared for what to expect...for us it's pretty much old hat thankfully. She stayed only a few hours until another room adjacent to us opened up completely. Evidently the couple in that room found out that we were all getting roommates that night and bolted as fast as they could. That night i didn't get the luxury of a real bed and had to use the cot instead. I probably should have taken the mattress and just thrown it on the floor vs sleeping with the metal bar under my hips all night. I'll have to remember that for baby #4.

The next day mom was wiped out, so we let her rest for a few hours and took our time packing up. By 6pm, we finally had the carseat adjusted so Camden wouldn't become a projectile object in the unfortunate event of a car accident. We said our goodbye's to the nursing staff...many of them telling us to look them up in 2 or 3 years when we return. It's really a win win situation for us whenever we deliver. Nurses love us because we're fun, sassy and self sufficient outside of drug dispensing. We love them because they actually stay and TALK with us...vs just stopping by for meds. They also give us alot of leeway in what we can and can't do which makes our resort stay just that...the best it could be for what it is.

I'm told that we're not keeping the blog up now that we're home, so I believe this will be our last entry. If that changes, we'll let you all know. We'd like to thank everyone that's been following the blog for updates, and hope to see you all very soon once the "quarantine" has been revoked in a few days. Again we appologize for not taking any visitors during our hospital resort stay or shortly thereafter, but the protection of mom and baby from that terrible stomach virus going around was top priority. I'm sure most would do the same in our position.