Life on the floor...

Stella officially moved down the hall yesterday afternoon and had her first night on the "floor".  It was another step closer to bringing our girl home.  If she continues on her current rock star trajectory, we could be bringing her home the week after next!!!   We are more than ready for her to come home and to stop living at the hospital but the concept of caring for her right now seems daunting.

This side of the double doors we get to be a lot more hands on.  The goal is for her to continue to be stable and gain weight, while they teach us how to care for her at home.  All of the doctors and nurses were great in the ICU about explaining what they were doing but once we crossed over here, we have to learn to start doing it.  Although she still has a PICC line, they decided (with a little prodding from daddy and one of our favorite nurses) to hep-lock it, so now we only have 3 wires and an NG tube to contend with when we pick her up.

We brought C & E back to the hospital today to see their sister...not sure how they feel about a baby sister coming home just yet...