Our Adoption Story: Can we take him "home" now??

Papers had been signed, we were now the legal guardians of this little bundle of joy. We were ready to take him "home", to the hotel, and settle into being a family. Learn what this thing called parenting is. Just not yet, we had to wait...and wait...and wait. The hospital was waiting for the PICU tests to come back, until they had that we could not leave with our little guy.

The nurse, who was fabulous, told us that it was going to be awhile before the paperwork was done allowing us to be in the nursery with him. She told us "This is the last time you will get a certified nurse to babysit for FREE. Go enjoy the last lunch you two will have alone for a while. He is in good hands". So we did. We ran out to lunch, ate at Chili's (I forget why, I think we were trying to hit Babies R Us or something too...that didn't happen). Lunch took longer than we had hoped so we hurried back to the hospital.

When we got back to the hospital we were put in a private room right next to the nursery. It was a room with 2 chairs, a side table and a TV. Not much, but was enough for us to enjoy time with our precious little man and each other.

After the tests came back, the law office was called. One of their representatives had to be present at discharge. Once she arrived, we were able to sign the discharge paperwork and break free from the hospital. Rich and I had a good laugh, the hospital policy is that the mom and baby have to be wheeled out in a wheel chair, baby in arms. We had a good laugh because here I was with my hair done, make up on, and looking refreshed and people were passing by giving me looks like "she looks GOOD for having just had a baby".

We were so glad to have our little guy in our arms and be heading to, what would be home for 3 weeks, the hotel. First stop on the way, Target. We needed diapers, formula, and who knows what else we put in that cart (it was full for sure), but we needed it!

 

 

Breaking FREE. First car ride.