Touched By An ANGE....Hold The L: Coming home from the hospital.

I had Nolan on Wednesday, May 4th and on Friday, May 6th Dr. Newman and the nurse said if I was ready to go home I could or I could stay another night. There really wasn't anything they could do for me at the hospital that my mom or Gray couldn't have done for me at home! :) Gray and I decided mid-morning that we would try to leave the hospital by late Friday afternoon. I went in to the hospital with a bad cold and by Friday I started coughing really bad and my nurse was a little concerned about what she heard in my lungs. With my lung history, the nurse called Dr. Newman and ordered a chest x-ray. I also requested something for the coughing because it was hurting to cough and I just wanted it to go away! Thankfully, my chest x-ray came back normal...just stinky to feel so miserable! They advised me to take Robitussin DM when I got home and continue my other pain medicines. Gray and I were so excited to leave with Nolan but a little nervous too. They let us leave the hospital with a newborn, no Dept. of Family and Children's Services involvement or anything!! Just us with a 2 day old baby!! Craziness.

Because I was feeling pretty poorly, I didn't get any pics of Nolan in his "coming home" outfit by himself not in his carseat ( -1 for mom). I wasn't totally thinking I felt like we had moved into the room and we had a lot to get out. Here are our pictures of us leaving the hospital, a family of 3! :)

As we left our room I was creeping through the hall (because it's hard walking quickly after a c-section people!) and Dr. Newman happened to be coming out of another room waiting to deliver a baby so I asked her if we could get some pictures! She was so sweet and said she would love to, she also asked the nurse walking by to please get me a wheel-chair, I was trying not to be dramatic but it sure was nice to not have to walk!! (doesn't she just look so nice?! LOVE her!!)

We got the wheelchair and Dr. Newman stayed with us and took pictures for us!

Our Nurse Kelly came out with us and took this picture of us, not my favorite picture of myself by good documentation anyway!!

Coming home we took the back roads, Gray decided we didn't need to chance it on the interstate! :) I called my mom (who was at our house already making dinner) to let her know we'd be arriving soon with Baby Nolan!