Click your heels together and say...there's no place like home, there's no place like home

At 12:40 today, April 11th, Miss M was honorably discharged from the NICU and from Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital and made her way home.

She is on medication for her SVT and she will be meeting with her cardiologist in a couple weeks. She does have a slightly curved spine but nothing to worry about right now. Her bili's went from 15.2 yesterday to 7 today so kid knows how to get rid of the yellow!

Now, a week after her birth we need to re-adjust to life at home with a newborn. I've spent the past 6 days wanting to bring my baby home but as we started to walk out today I wanted to grab the nurse's ankle and hang on, begging her to let us stay. I think there's something called Stockholm Syndrome where you start to sympathize with captors and I think I'm suffering from that. After we got home I realized I hadn't said good-bye to the Cafe that nurished me during my stay (great salad bar!), that I didn't say good-bye to the lounge at the Ronald McDonald House where I read in relative peace between feedings. The nurse today wasn't one of our regulars and i never got to thank them for all they did. I'm going to miss the parking garage and the long walk from it to the NICU.

But, I am glad to have my baby home. Miss F is an excited big sister. And we're ready.... bring on the sleepless nights, bring on the back pain from carrying the carseat, bring it.

And to those of you that wrote, called, prayed and kept in touch even if we didn't--- Thank you. My phone didn't get great reception in the hospital so text was my only line of communication, half the time my ringer was off so as not to disturb the babies in our pod (though, with all the ding-dongs going on in there I suppose my 'piano riff' ring tone wouldn't really have made a difference). The first few days I didn't want to talk at all because I was just trying to hold it all together.

I started this blog in December 2005 as a way to keep people up to date with our then newborn, Miss F. Who knew it would become my lifeline during this time as I needed an outlet and it was a way to communicate in one place, one time and reach as many as I could.

We will return to our regular programming...weekly updates on the entire B Family and our regular comings and goings.