We had some pretty amazing nurses. Since we were at the hospital for four days we went through a lot of nurses. We only had a couple more than once, one being the bad one which sucked but one was really great.
Since Lucas could not sleep on his back because he kept choking he really could only sleep if he was held. The hospital would not let the baby sleep with you while you were sleeping or let them sleep on their stomach so we did not really get sleep at night. I hadn't slept since I went into labor so Kevin was afraid that I was going to die of sleep deprivation...literally. He was kind of freaking out. So at 6 am on Tuesday (that's three nights of not sleeping) Kevin and a nurse convinced me to let her take Lucas into the nursery for an hour so I could get some sleep. After lots of tears I let her and at 7:30 am she returned with him and I was able to get an hour of sleep.
Tuesday night went the same way and since we were going home the next day and would have no help Kevin and this really great nurse that we had the first night convinced me to let the nurse take Lucas. I did not want him going in the nursery again (I was feeling like the worst mother ever) so the nurse said she didn't have anything going on so she would hold Lucas for an hour or two while I got some sleep. Ok, that works. It was SO hard for me to let Lucas go for those hours and I'm not sure I would do that again (though I don't know what else I could have done if I was going to sleep) but for every one's sake I needed some sleep. It's probably why I'm having a hard time putting him down now though.
One of the nurses we had was pretty blunt but it made for some good laughs. She was checking Lucas's circumcision and literally said "wow, he is hung." I could feel Kevin glowing...haha! She then proceeded to tell us that one of her son's was so small that they almost couldn't do the procedure and that all of her son's were still pretty small. Um?
My sister Shira had given me a hospital gown from Etsy. It was so awesome to have this. As you can tell from my pictures I'm not one of those women who looks good after giving birth and in the hospital. Having a nice hospital gown when visitors came made me feel so much better. I got so many compliments from the nurses and think it is totally work bringing in your own gowns.
Lucas is getting fussy so I'm going to have to cut this short but I can't really think of much else to say anyway.
I spent so much time worrying about what Lucas's perfect take-home outfit would be and then Kevin heard that we couldn't put him in a onesie so there all that time went! Turns out that he just couldn't be in a onesie while he umbilical cord clip was on. Oh well! You live and you learn.
Maybe next time I will have Angie do my hair and tell Kevin I don't care what he says I am putting on makeup:)
We were so thankful to have been able to stay in the hospital as long as we did to help with my recovery and work out all the worries we had with Lucas but boy were ready to go home on Wednesday. Side note: one of the nurses told us that President Clinton passed a law in 1997 that made hospitals/insurance companies have women stay in the hospital two nights after they gave birth verse just one or a few hours so they could have more time.
We did not size the harness of the car seat before putting Lucas in it for the first time so he may or may not have had only one of the bottom straps fully in on the car ride home...I was back there with him and Kevin drove really slow.
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