Thursday, June 10, 2010

Ethan's Trip Home

Here are few pics from Monday night! We're so happy to have Ethan home.

Katie in the elevator on our way up to Ethan's room.


This is Ethan in his car-seat. The hospital will not let babies go home from the NICU before they've passed a 90 minute car-seat trial. They do that to make sure that the baby handles the car-seat well, and the design doesn't cause them to have breathing issues.

We carried Ethan from the room down to the car, then this is another picture of him, in the car this time once we got him situated.

Home! We have Ethan in a bassinet next to the bed for easy access. I think we originally intended easy for us to access him, but Ethan decided that access worked both ways. Monday night he explained to us how much he appreciated that access until about 1:00 am. We've since figured out his schedule a little bit, and now are getting a reasonable amount of sleep.
We're really excited about having him home with us. I don't know how we'd be handling everything if he was still in Winnie Palmer, now that we're in New Smyrna Beach. Thank you all for praying for us, we'll continue to keep you updated!

- Ken

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Coming Home!!!

Great new! Dr. Alexander told Katie today that he is planning on discharging Ethan on Monday! Unless Ethan gives us reason to pause, we're planning on that. Please pray for us this weekend. We will be combining moving with bringing our son home, so we're going to be very busy, and probably emotionally and physically exhausted.

Don't worry, I intend on having the camera close by on Monday. I'll probably not post anything until Monday late night or Tuesday morning.

- Ken