Home!! We are finally home! It's hard to believe it's finally here-It's been six weeks since Abby was born, and although it felt really long at the time, it's a blur! Abby came home on Wednesday, but first we slept at the hospital on Tuesday night for a 'trial run' with Abby hooked up to the home monitor and oxygen. It was a pretty long and sleepless night. The room was extremely quiet, and Abby is used to lots of noise so she was pretty restless, as where we. But we made it through the night. Wednesday am I had my six week check up with the OB, everything is looking good. They put me on blood pressure med like an old lady before I left the hospital because a week after delivery my blood pressure was still really high, so they were also checking that. Finally around lunch time on Wednesday, Abby was discharged and we headed home. Besides being excited to have Abby home and just be around her all the time, we were excited to see how Roxy reacted to our new addition. It was kind of disappointing because Roxy just sniffed her for a minute and then moved on. Roxy has been really good with Abby so far, she's very curious about her, so there is lots of sniffing. Right now Abby is asleep in her cradle and Roxy is sniffing all around it and whining at it because she wants to get close enough to sniff Abby-but Abby doesn't seem to mind!
The first two days have been going really well. Matt and I both decided since we made it this far we can handle anything Abby throws at us-I know we say that now! Preemies are supposed to sleep about 22 hours a day, but I don't think Abby got that memo. I think she's just getting used to being in a new place, there hasn't been too much crying, just a little fussing and restlessness-but she seems to be a little more settled today. Like I said before, we're strictly limiting visitors for a while, especially during the winter season. Because Abby is a preemie she has an increased risk for RSV-a virus we really don't want her to get! As soon as we can have some visitors we'll let everyone know. For now Abby is what they call 'home bound' because of the monitor and oxygen, so we'll be hibernating for a while. A nurse came today to check out Abby and take her weight and everything was good. Abby now weighs 4.01 lbs. We go to the pediatrician tomorrow and the eye doctor next week. Abby is also at risk for some eye problems later in her life but so far everything looks good. We don't go to CHOP until February, so hopefully we won't have too many more appointments in the mean time.
Here a few pics of our first few days, they'll be tons more to come....

This is Abby just before we wheeled her out of the hospital....

This is Abby in her car seat-it looks huge next to her!

Our first night wasn't too bad, but apparently we kept Roxy up!!!

Abby's sleep area downstairs is in the changing area of her pack-n-play-it's the perfect size for her!

Roxy was more interested in daddy-yes she is licking his head-and he couldn't stop her...

Matt loves this pic-Roxy is so curious about what we're doing with Abby-I'm not looking to fab but I have an excuse for a while!