Homecoming!

Room in at the hospital

Sleeping in her bassinet at home!

After a room in at the hospital last night, we got to bring Maddie home today at around 3pm. As soon as we left the hospital we had our first adventure as parents. It all started with the fact that Maddie has had episodes of apnea where she will stop breathing and her heart rate drops. It is fairly common in all premies. Because of this, she was sent home with a monitor to let us know if she stops breathing. The alarm normally wakes her up and she is fine. On the way home, the alarm went off for longer than it ever had before and Kellie could not get her to breathe again so we had to pull over. After a few seconds(which seemed like eternity) she came back around. Janet suggested that she didn't have an episode but rather her face fell forward and closed off her air supply which makes perfect sense...she's a little small for her car seat. Once she came back around and became pink again(she had turned blue) we continued on. I thought Kellie would pass out from hyperventalating so my main concern at that point was getting home. First we ran into cops directing trafic at a school which held us up around 5 minutes. When we got through that we got stuck behind a stalled truck at an intersection. Kellie suggested we take the highway at that point and to cut through a parking lot..which I did but then I got stuck because an ambulance and firetruck were coming through and stoping traffic. I thought we'd never make it home. We finally did and I am happy to report that she has not had a single episode since last night. We are SO glad she is finally home. Thanks for all your prayers.