Getting closer to going home

We are getting closer to going home!!! We are starting to have lots of appointments at the NICU. On Friday, Dr Lazono, the pulmonologist will come to see Owen and go over a plan for us on Owen's home oxygen needs and follow up with him at his office. Owen has a large indention in his pallet, either clef pallet or an indentation from his ventilator tube being in there so long. The nurse practitioner of the plastic surgeon will hopefully come look at him and talk to us about necessary follow up for him. Nathan will be scheduled for an MRI on Tuesday to look at his PVL. Originally we were not going to do an MRI but Dr. Strange thinks it could give us some good information and we would much rather we have it done on her supervision than an outpatient procedure at Children's hospital. On Monday we will receive training on the boys monitors and oxygen (for Owen) they will go home with. We are still on schedule to go home the later part of next week!!

Nathan was able to take a few short trips out of the NICU yesterday to a parenting room!!! He was able to spend that time with just Preston and I off his monitors. It was really nice and a huge step to spend a little alone time with him. He is now off his oxygen saturation monitor all of the time.

Last night we went to Babies R Us and got the boys new car seats, crib sheets, etc. It was a lot of fun. Of course as we were heading back up to the hospital, just after leaving Babies R Us, I remembered lots of other things I had wanted to get there. So, we will be making another stop or two soon.