How happy and relieved we are to finally be home! Mary was delighted to see her brothers and I was just so glad to see my own bed. I took a shower, gave Mary a bath (being careful to not immerse her incision, of course) and we snuggled together for a four hour nap. We woke to dinner, enjoyed a quick game of sweet revenge and then caught up on some family reading before heading off to bed.
We have an appointment with Dr. V for an echo and some blood work on Monday - he is keeping a close eye on the fluid still surrounding Mary's heart.
There is so much I want to share about our time at Loyola, and some lessons learned through this ordeal, but that will have to wait for a later time. For now, though, here is a picture of Mary, gnawing a cinnamon raisin bagel. Charlie and Sam were both much older than 5-1/2 months before anything other than breastmilk passed their lips - and it was something more 'perfect', like avocado or sweet potato. Also, when Scott suggested giving Mary teething biscuits during the drive home from the hospital yesterday, I rolled my eyes with a great big, of course not! She's too young! But as we all know, mama gets to make (and change on a whim) all the rules.
And really, after what Mary's been through, she can have pretty much anything she wants!
4 comments:
its okay, desmond was only about 1 month old when he got his first "mini cone" at dairy queen. right emily?
Perhaps that's what caused his tachycardia...
I'm TOTALLY bringing Doritos over next week.
I love that little superhero. She's so brave! Like her mama.
I seem to be giving Justice more table food a whole lot earlier than I did for the other two boys. He loves it. Danielle
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