It's lucky we didn't count our chickens.
It turns out it's most likely we won't be taking our babies home next week. Stanley is still having oxygen de-saturations when feeding, and the docs want to know what is causing it before they discharge him. Rightly so; we don't want to take him home if there is any doubt that he's going to be alright.
It's just a bit of a blow after we'd worked ourselves up into thinking that by Tuesday we'd all be home as one happy family. Right now, it looks like Willow is more ready than Stanley is. We wouldn't have thought that a few weeks ago, when she was still clinging onto life with the ventilator while he was happily breathing away on nasal prongs.
This is the famous NICU rollercoaster after all. Surely though, this is going to be the last dip.
The good thing is, we are still rooming in this weekend. Despite Stanley's remaining issues, we're actually very comfortable feeding both of them now, and are looking forward to having them both with us for the first time tomorrow night.
Leela, as the mother, gets the option of tasting the gourmet cuisine of Poole Hospital while we're rooming in; but after September's post-natal experience, we'll probably give that one a miss. I reckon The Gate Of India might get a call to make a special delivery to St Mary's instead.
It turns out it's most likely we won't be taking our babies home next week. Stanley is still having oxygen de-saturations when feeding, and the docs want to know what is causing it before they discharge him. Rightly so; we don't want to take him home if there is any doubt that he's going to be alright.
It's just a bit of a blow after we'd worked ourselves up into thinking that by Tuesday we'd all be home as one happy family. Right now, it looks like Willow is more ready than Stanley is. We wouldn't have thought that a few weeks ago, when she was still clinging onto life with the ventilator while he was happily breathing away on nasal prongs.
This is the famous NICU rollercoaster after all. Surely though, this is going to be the last dip.
The good thing is, we are still rooming in this weekend. Despite Stanley's remaining issues, we're actually very comfortable feeding both of them now, and are looking forward to having them both with us for the first time tomorrow night.
Leela, as the mother, gets the option of tasting the gourmet cuisine of Poole Hospital while we're rooming in; but after September's post-natal experience, we'll probably give that one a miss. I reckon The Gate Of India might get a call to make a special delivery to St Mary's instead.
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