Baby, Please Come Home

There is a 90% chance we could bring Evie home from the hospital today (Monday). Her numbers are stable enough that the surgeon thinks that she does not need the unifocalization surgery immediately, and so he would like her to grow a bit more before doing the surgery in approximately six weeks. We could take her home, and the good news is we wouldn't need to have the NG (feeding tube) or the heart monitor (because the doctors say it always goes off and scares the parents when it's really nothing).

We would, however, need to be trained in infant CPR and trained in recognizing when we need to call 911 because of a color change. Evie will often turn partially blue or a "dusky" color when exerting a lot of energy, such as when feeding, so we need to be able to tell the difference between a fluctuation and an emergency (which isn't an exact science, by the way, so I'll probably be calling 911 all the time).

She enjoyed several visitors from family over the weekend, but she was running a slight fever (101 F), but then it went back to normal. They nurses are watching her for 24 hours to see if she has caught anything. If not, we're hopeful the cardiologist will decide to discharge her when they do their patient rounds in the morning, between 9-10:30AM.

Regarding Evie's fever, the nurses first thought that she was bundled up too much (ya think?):




So they unbundled her a bit to see if she cooled off naturally (which she did some time later). Of course, she didn't like being naked and photographed by the family paparazzi either.



She attempted some form of modesty for the camera, but I'm sure the candid photos will end up on TMZ anyway.




Evie says to the camera that she's "Okay," and that anything else you've read in the papers about her hospital stay being for "rehab" is a vicious lie.




My sister, Clare, and Godfather David, were able to see Evie last Friday afternoon. Clare travels all over the country for her job, and it was was one of the few times she's gotten a chance to visit with Evie in the hospital.





Hopefully we'll receive a happy phone call by noon that our baby can come home!