Baby girl is finally home!!!!

Our sweetheart came home last night. We are overjoyed to have her safe and sound with her family.  Praise God for my little troopers awesomely fast recover from surgery!

She had dinner with her family and cuddles with everyone who could be here. I am sure she is excited to cuddle with the remaining family members as soon as she can. :)

She had a rough night, sleep wise. I think she was over stimulated on top of the fact that everything was different. She needed a lot of extra cuddles, which I was only too happy to give, even if I did cuss under my breath a few times when my eyes had barely closed and she started again... I love her to pieces and she is more than worth the loss of sleep. It amazed me that Daddy ( who to be fair got up a couple times to help out ) was able to sleep through any of it. But he managed. He is exhausted too, but got a few more hours sleep lol.

We have to go today and buy her a new car seat as hers is just to big for her tiny frame. It's made for 4 pounds and up but she is lost and unsupported in there, even with the preemie positioner. We have to hunt down a wardrobe as well. Preemies are too big on her everywhere except length. She is about 2 inches to long for them... so the hunt is on for footless preemie clothes that don't pull on over the head. It's not been easy so far.

We have about a week to normalize and set a routine before all her appointments start. We already have a lot of them and her in home therapy, cardiologist and developmental pediatrician haven't been set yet. Plus once the insurance company is done taking their sweet time underwriting her policy we have to add a regular pediatrician to the list. I really hope that they hurry as she really needs to get set up with her pediatrician. They almost wouldn't let her come home because of all this delayed insurance stuff... We were really lucky that her neonatologist was willing to override the weekend on call doc, or she would have been there till the insurance stuff came through and she had a close appointment with her regular pediatrician.  Yesterday was a total emotional roller-coaster of " she's going home, she's not going home" over and over again.

Oh and we found out they don't think she was 36 weeks 6 days like originally thought. They think she is a true preemie at 33 weeks 6 days... that explains a lot that can't be explained by her diagnosed conditions.

But she is here now and starting to settle in. Cuddling her without wires is the absolute best feeling in the world. She is a true miracle baby and the second greatest gift from God that I could ever imagine.