Justin's Going to McDonalds on Monday!

That's what the NICU nurses say when a baby is DISCHARGED. Yep, you read it right, my baby is finally coming home. For some reason babies seem to take a few steps back when the term discharged is used so they started using McDonalds, lol. And it's funny because in passing one of the nurses said they heard Justin is going to McDonalds and the representative from the oxygen tank company heard her and said "McDonalds sounds good, what are you getting". I laughed and had to explain to him that it was code for him coming home.

This morning I looked at Justin and said to myself "you look bigger". It took me two minutes to realize that he looked bigger because he no longer had his feeding tube in so I could see more of his face. I was so excited because I wasn't expecting them to remove it. And even though I knew he would more than likely be discharged next week I was not expecting them to say that we could bring him home Monday. But yesterday he passed his car seat test with flying colors. This morning I was finally able to pick up his prescriptions so the nurse was able to go over the medications with Carl and I. And we met with a representative from the company supplying his oxygen tanks and received two tanks for home and two portable tanks.

And now that he's coming home he can finally start receiving breast milk. For now he'll be getting breast milk for 2 out of his 8 feeds but they'll need to be fortified with formula. But the plan is to gradually increase it as he continues to gain weight. So it looks like all my hard work as a milk cow is paying off. Now lets see if I can keep it up.