She's home

We brought Abigail into the lobby of Children's Hospital at 2:09 p.m. Eastern Time today. (One of the information desk ladies printed out a visitor tag with the time on it as a keepsake.) A short time later, we were cruising across Columbus with a baby in the back seat.

It was quite surreal after 112 days being able to walk out without anyone stopping us. We had been told that the discharge process could be quite long and odious, but it really wasn't that bad. After we talked about a few things and signed a few papers, our nurse for the day (one we never had before, oddly enough) walked us to the door and said goodbye.

The photo above is us with Abby outside the hospital. To see more pictures from Abby's first day of freedom, click here.

We came straight home and got Abby and all her accessories in the apartment. She slept most of the way home, but she woke up not long after we arrive and started looking around. She then demanded her first at-home diaper change and bottle, and now she is resting happily on her mom.

I've taken a good chunk of the next two weeks off work, which will allow us to keep Abby home for almost all of that time. That is good for her health, obviously. After that, she still won't be going out much for a while.

She did come home on oxygen and with an apnea monitor, but they're easy enough to use. She's also on a medicine to fight thrush, which is the only other significant medical problem she's coming home with.

So we're home and happy. This blog now will return to its regularly scheduled programing, but I'm sure that still will include lots of cute pictures of Abby.

Thank you all for your support, love and prayers over the last several months.