Thursday morning was a good morning. The best morning. It was the morning we took our little love home. It was the morning we had been waiting for. It had finally arrived.
Wednesday night couldn't have gone better. Karsten gained weight, he ate all of his feeds, his urine output was awesome, and he was able to get a few hours of good sleep in. We hoped that a good night like that would give us the ticket to go home, and it did, it absolutely did.
Our nurse and doctor came in to our room around 9:00am that morning. We were so excited that we had already gotten ready and we were already packed up, just in case. Karsten was in his going home outfit which consisted of one of the very few preemie outfits that I could find and newborn socks that refused to stay on his tiny feet and legs. Our doctor was full of good news and paperwork for the discharging process. It was such a huge bundle of mixed emotions. One minute I was so excited, the next I was terrified, another I was sad to be leaving our NICU crew and the last part of me was just blissfully happy. A huge majority of me was just happy. Happy for the moment and happy for our future home with our little love.
We signed papers, we went over appointments with our multiple doctors, we scanned our frozen milk, we packed up Karsten's cart and we said goodbye to what had become our home for the last two months. We said goodbye to the friends we had made and the places that had become so familiar. We entered the NICU one last time to say our goodbyes to the team members that were there. They were all gathered in Karsten's empty room for their one last meeting.
We walked out of the hospital doors hand in hand with our little love in his car seat. Our car seat was no longer empty. At that moment, I realized that my one dream had come true. My dream to be one of those families with their car pulled to the front loading up their newborn child. That was us, and as I realized it the tears started flowing.
The moment we had dreamed of for the last 64 days was here.
Welcome home Karsten, welcome home!
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