Not Quite!

Carrie and I are sick of the hospital. Elizabeth has been in the NICU (Neonatal Itensive Care Unit) since she was born but only as a precaution because her breathing was a little rapid. She is surrounded by premature babies, a couple nearly 11 weeks early. We have been walking over and spending time with her over the last few days. She might of had some meconium (new vocabulary) aspiration during the c-section but they also wanted to do a blood culture and give her antibiotics just in case. Her breathing corrected itself and in 48 hours there was no sign of infection. Then we were waiting for her to take to nursing and pee. All of these things she was passing with flying colors and staff said they would start the process. So we were looking at discharge today sometime in the late afternoon. We started to get Carrie ready for discharge so that we could go over to the NICU and hang out waiting to finish Elizabeth's. We were just waiting for the results from a cranial ultrasound they did because her head is just a little small (I don't know where she gets that from). I packed up the luggage, installed the car seat, and brought over the 'home outfit' and got Carrie discharged. As we were getting ready to move over to the NICU area, the lead nurse told us that they wanted to do an MRI just to follow up on the ultrasound. That means we in are in for at least another day. I'm not trying to downplay the reasons for the MRI, but they know we are overseas and wanted to do a more thorough check and to have a good record just in case. In fact, we could have taken her home and brought her back later for the MRI, but it was better to just stick it out one more night. They've disconnected her from all her probes so she is no longer tethered. The staff is very accommodating and put us up in a family room ... the best thing is that Elizabeth is staying in the room with us. Hopefully, we'll be going home tomorrow.