Congratulations to the whole family, and best wishes for continued health and feistiness!
Your Lordship, never fear! They can fix that right up. My oldest did much the same thing (I hope the rest of you have NEVER seen anything as gruesome as a baby covered with blood and yellow shit!) and spent a week in the ICU. The negatives were not having her home, being embarassed to have the only baby in the NICU who was full term and not likely to die thanks to antibiotics, and the attachment she developed to being fed through a tube, where she went from hungry to full in fifteen seconds and with zero effort. She never was able to match that with a bottle–her best time was thirty seconds with a full bottle–and nursing was out of the question. WAY too much work.
The young master will be fine. Send us pics!
I’m here choking back tears. OK, I’m a little drunk, but my son was born 9 weeks early and spent 12 days on a vent. This kinds of brings it all back. He spent 58 days in the hospital and I can hardly remember them. It seems like a dream. We have pictures, but it still doesn’t seem real.
Congratulations and good luck. My son has a few life-long medical issues but is smart as a whip and doing great. In a few years this will be some kind of dream that you sort of think you had. Enjoy the family!
Daddy, I hope they’re happy tears. I think I know how you feel with the whole “doesn’t seem real” part. I can hardly remember him under oxygen, and that was just 4 days ago. I’m happy that I thought to save up for this, so I could afford to take FMLA-unpaid time this week, I can’t imagine having to work all day and then go to the NICU to visit. It must have been very hard on you and your family.
-lv
Great news, Lord Vor! Sounds like everything’ll be normal now. Those babies grow like mushrooms, so savor every moment!
Congratulations to all the Vors! My eyes filled with tears too when I read that you had held your son and watched him go to sleep in your arms.
There is nothing nicer than a warm and floppy baby. Wait till you get him home and can try skin to skin contact. Wait till he’s big enough that you can all sleep together without worrying about squashing him. Wait till you have to carry him sleeping out of his car seat and into bed as a toddler worn out by a happy day playing with you. Or when you lug a sleepy big school age boy up the stairs, piggy back, and his toes bang the steps with every tread you take.
You will go from laying him down softly in his little basket to thudding him down off your shoulder while heaving for breath, but each time you will pause to look down on him and know that he is the best thing that ever happened to you.
Look forward to the future, and relish the present.
Final update, before this turns into a LiveJournal. He’s home, he’s breastfeeding, and the new parents survived the first night. Barely. It was touch and go for a while, but then he fell asleep at 2 and stayed that way until 6, giving mom and dad both a needed 4 hours.
I’m going to ask the mods to lock the thread, so I can print off “the whole thing” and add it to his baby book. Thank you all again, this was just a wonderful experience.
-lv
It’s “meconium,” incidentally.
On further reading, I see the spelling issue had already been addressed. I apologize for my redundancy.
Does anyone else remember the episode of “Law & Order” in which meconium played a crucial part? Good episode.
Closed at the request of the OP. Good luck with the baby, LordVor!