Scheduling

I admitted the other day that I don't take to change all that well....here's another thing about me....I like to be organized and have a schedule of exactly what is happening (that's how I successfully help two partners prepare and process over 300 personal tax returns in 5 weeks!).

With that said, I headed to the hospital for 11am this morning so that I could talk to the doctor about springing my babies. A student nurse greeting me and bestowed wonderful words about my boys (aw shucks, thanks). I then questioned when the doctor would be in as I would like to discuss a timeline regarding my boys coming home.

She questioned what the last estimate was....well Nov 3 they told me 4 - 6 weeks, I haven't been told anything since then. Off she went to find the doctor and I proceeded to talk to Gavin and Riley. She returned saying I had missed the doctor but the nurse said that they have to bottle for 48 hours....so I politely cut her off (only because I knew what she was going to say).

I told her that the last time I had spoken with the doctor he said their only hurdle was they had to bottle for 48 hours and since they were gaining weight, that wasn't an issue. I mentioned that some nights the boys are tube fed as they don't seem to have enough nurses and I wanted to ask the doctor if that was taken into account.

She then asked when and if I was going to "room in" with the boys. I would like to stay with them the night before they come home....which is one of the reasons I would like a time line. There is no point in gearing up for it if it isn't until next week. We talked for awhile and she understood, I really have NO IDEA when they are to be sprung and really neither did she.

The nurses did suggest that we return this evening with a car seat for their test. With preemie babies they have what they call a "car seat test". The babies have to sit in the car seat for a predetermined amount of time (travel time home times 2), while attached to the Oximeter (measures heart rate and oxygen levels), with no alarms from the Oximeter.

Basically as preemies the seat doesn't support them as well as if they were full term. In the seat over time, they tend to slump down and their heads flop forward or sideways and they end up having trouble breathing. If they don't slump or have problems breathing...they pass.

Tonight we will return with a car seat and hopefully the boys pass and that will be one less test.......and tomorrow I will try and talk to the doctor.