Sunday in the Hospital!

Like I said before, I would have gotten to go home on Sunday, had it not been for me carrying the Group B Strep bacteria and not getting my antibiotics because my labor went so fast.  So, we knew I would have to stay until Monday morning.  They were waiting on a culture that takes 48 hours and it wouldn't be finished until midnight that night.  They went ahead and discharged me Sunday night, but let me stay in my room.  They call it "nesting" and it just meant they could no longer offer care for me, but I could stay there until the next morning when Matthew was to be released.

The neonatologist that saw him was really nice and very informative.  We kind of laughed because he went into great detail about GBS and jaundice, as if we didn't have 3 kids already.  But, I appreciated him making sure we understood everything.  I even know the chemistry of jaundice now and how that all works.  Ha!  Matthew never showed any signs of contracting GBS and his culture came back clear.  He did have a little bit of jaundice, but nothing significant.
Here was my view from my room.  I was starting to get a little stir crazy in there!

Sweet baby fingers :)

Morgan and the girls came to visit again and I just happened to be looking out the window when they drove up and took this picture of them.  LOL!

Precious peaceful baby.....

Since we knew we'd be staying longer, my OB said he would come back on Sunday to do Matthew's circumcision.  They took him to the nursery to do it and then brought him back.  Right after Morgan and the girls arrived, Matthew needed a diaper change.  That was the first time I had changed him and saw him after the circumcision.  Right about that time, my MIL and FIL walked in to visit.  Well, as soon as I opened his diaper, I had my first breakdown right then and there.  I was not expecting it to look so traumatic and it broke my heart!  I thought, what have I done to my poor baby?!!  And to make it worse, he kind of whimpered as if it hurt and I thought my heart was going to break in two.  I just picked him up and just started crying.  I felt so bad too because Morgan's Mom and Stepdad decided to go ahead and take the girls to their house and then after they left, I saw the most beautiful flowers that they had brought me and I didn't even say Thank You.

Thankfully, right after that, my friends from church, Liz and Amy, came to visit.  I told them about it and Liz is a baby nurse, so she took a look at it and said it looked completely normal so that put my mind at ease.  The timing of that was a blessing.  And all of the nurses and doctors and his pediatrician since then have said what a great job the doctor did, so I am so thankful for that.  I have prayed and prayed about that!  And it is finally healed and this Mommy feels much better.  :)  Morgan joked with me and said I was going to be way more protective with Matthew than I ever was with the girls.  :D

Almost everyone who visited us in the hospital were from our church.  What a blessing to have that church family!  It really brightened my days and made it not seem like such a long stay to have people come and visit us.  They also organized meals for the entire first week of us being home, which was so amazingly thoughtful and helpful not to have to worry about what we were going to eat.  And it was fun to have some more visitors too :)  All of the facebook wishes were so much fun too.  Facebook just makes it so easy to share things like this!  I appreciated so much each and every single one of them and tried to reply to them all, but it was hard to keep up at times.  Another huge help was that my MIL picked up the girls from school and took them to dance all of that first week for me.  I could not have survived without her!  All of these things just made me feel so loved and so blessed to have such amazing people in our lives!

Well, tomorrow is my 3 year blogiversary!  Can you believe it?!  Who knew three years ago that we would have a sweet little boy in our family now?  God is so good!