Leaving St Joes

Thursday morning came and we were scheduled to leave St. Joes. The nurse we had that morning thought it was ridiculous Bryttney hadn't held him yet so she let Bryttney hold him before the transport team got there. As they lifted him up there were so many cables hanging off of him! I kind of freaked out and refused to hold him, the previous nurses had made me paranoid about the lines in his belly button. Bryttney was glowing, she was so excited to hold her little baby, it had been two days since she gave birth. She had been so amazing through this whole thing, always smiling and always making jokes. She is truly an amazing mother. Michael could not have been born into a better family, we both love him soo much! Our nurse insisted on us holding him. She also swabbed his mouth with some of Bryttneys breast milk. Then she took a couple pictures of us and printed them out so we could take some home to Zoey.

A while later the transport team arrived. They were very cool, they seemed like some kind of elite commandos or something, they had all this crazy gear and were in these jump suits and everyone just kind of got out of their way. It was actually pretty cool, they got him all hooked up and then Bryt went with them in the ambulance. When they got to Chlidren's they had this crazy gurney with an entire baby support system on it. It had all his medicine, oxygen, an incubator, all of his vital signs, alarms.. It was crazy what this thing was capable of. 

 As they wheeled him into the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, all the cardiac nurses were saying how big Michael was. They are used to primature babies I guess, so when they saw him, they were all making jokes about him being too big for the gurney and not being able to fit in the incubator. That was pretty cool, because it made us comfortable with the nurses and also confirmed that Michael was a good healthy size.

Getting put into Ambulance

About to be unloaded at Childrens