We're Home!

After 48 hours of Labor, 48 hours in the hospital, we are finally home!! It was quite the drama filled day. It started out early, with us getting up around 6 so that we could be out of the hospital by 8:30. All went well until we went into the nursery and the doctors were still checking Charlotte. We waited for the pediatrician, and he told us that Charlotte's bilirubin levels were high. That isn't abnormal for newborns, but she was in the higher end of those levels and they wanted to keep her under bili-lights a while longer, and then they decided that they were going to send us some bili-lights to keep her under at home. So we were a little worried not really knowing much about the lights and all it would entail, and just knowing that something isn't right with your brand new child is heart wrenching!! But we took it in stride, and continued to get ready to go. It was like everyone decided to wait to come in and see us until 8:30! We had the nurse give me my vaccinations last minute, they had the social worker come in to explain the bili-lights come in last minute, then even the lactation specialist showed up last minute!! The nurse finally said, "We are going to just release you paper work wise, and you can just leave when you're all done!" It also allowed us to keep Charlotte under the lights a little longer, so it turned out okay. We finally left the Hospital at about 10:00 and headed to the pharmacy to fill my prescriptions that I was needed to take right away now that we were so late leaving the hospital. As we were leaving the parking lot, a girl rear ended us!! Yup! Charlotte has now been in her first (and hopefully only!) car accident!! She was so good that she slept right through it!! But that was only because of Bryan's fast reactions. He saw the girl backing into him, and knew she wasn't stopping so he threw it into drive and tried to get away from her!! He lessened the blow so that it wasn't bad at all for us, and saved us from probably having to go back to the hospital for whiplash. He was just amazing!! Well, after all that drama, we finally made it home and Mom showed up helped us settle in and even brought us dinner later on! We had a nice relaxing rest of the day, with a few fabulous visitors, and some well deserved naps! (Man, I love me a good nap!!) Charlotte is getting used to her bili-light spa, and hopefully we'll see some improvement on her levels.
Here she is looking "oh so styling" in her saftey goggles!!

This is her little suitcase that she has to stay in as much as possible! The lights aren't warm, they're just florescent so she didn't like them at first cause she loves to be warm!!
You can see she has a portable light as well strapped to her body that goes with her everywhere, so when she is getting fed, or changed she still has some bili-light action!