Our Hospital Stay & Coming Home

Little man was still swollen on his right side of face for a couple of days

48 hours is a long time. Too long. I remember thinking the same thing when he had Elliana. Must we stay this full time? Can we just check out? Can I be that patient that goes AMA? Against medical advice.

Only kidding. About the AMA part. Although it would be nice to be discharged after say 24 hours, I completely understand why sometimes it's medically necessary. At the same time, I see a great positive for all those women who have home births. Every first in the comfort of their own home.

Enough of that. Lets talk about our hospital stay.

Uneventful is all I have to say about that. Aside from Elliana visiting both days and other visitors from family members, it was just Andrew, myself, and the little man. It felt eerily familiar as we had just done this 2 years prior, but definitely felt unusual as Elliana wasn't there with us the whole time.

Little man stayed with us throughout the two days, just as Elliana did. I had no intention of "sleeping" through the night, as I felt it was my duty as his mother to have him, hold him, console him, and nurture him. He made it easy though. Very peaceful, calm, and sure loved to sleep. So unlike the first time around, I actually did get to sneak in some zz's.

Once it was time to go, I couldn't have signed my name any faster. We were able to leave early in the afternoon, exactly 48 hours after the birth of our son, and I had that nervous feeling in my stomach. Butterflies. Excitement.

We were finally coming home to our daughter and starting our lives as a family of four. I was ready for this. I wanted to get started, and driving 30 minutes was almost too long. Two days at the hospital was too long. Two days too long.

I was ready the minute the little man was born.

And being home never felt so good.