We are Home!

We were discharged from CHOP today- it was a long 4 days, 3 nights- but it wasn't a bad time.
The bad-
well we were in the hospital for 4 days obviously.
She had to have an IV line put in just in case so had her arm taped up the whole time
Between medication timing, required vitals checks, blood sugar tests and the like- they had to mess with her daily at 1am, 2am, 4am, 8am, 9am, 12pm, 4pm, 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm, 12am. So she did get pretty annoyed at not being allowed to sleep and had a couple major meltdowns where she was so tired she couldn't sleep and would just scream.

The Good-
The screaming was just a little bit of it- mostly she was just a goofy, smiley, happy baby who charmed everyone.
I enjoyed having the one on one time with her- I had that with Brooks b/c he was an only, and of course I have one on one with both of them now- but not like this. It was nice bonding.
We were not tied down to our room- I could take her all over the hospital- we went for coffee, snacks, the playrooms, the roofdeck, and all over.
Eric & Brooks visited us daily so it was not bad
Ivy is healthy- we were there to monitor medicine for something that in the grand scheme is nothing- when you are there it is hard to not appreciate our "little" problem we were fixing.

The Medical Update-
They talked about letting us leave a day early b/c she responded so well. We may not need to give her more than medium dose. However, if she ever needed high dose- we would either have to readmit or see a derm every other day as we gradually upped the dose. Given this gamble, we chose to stay the last night and just test for toleration. This gives us freedom to adjust the dose as needed. What I *think* is going to happen- is she is on high dose now. We see the derm on 6/1. If the bump is completely gone he will prob shift us down to medium and then if we see it start returning we can address it and go to high dose. We shall see.

The meds were amazing- in 3 days- the difference in the bump is HUGE!


BEFORE SHOTS




After just 3 days of meds


A few pics of Brooks from this week since this is an Ivy centric post :)




Here are some pictures from our hospital stay.
In case you don't believe me about how she is pretty much the smiliest baby ever and how jolly Ivy was at the hospital- you can see for yourself. Makes it hard to feel too bad we had to stay there :)
The pics go backwards from Day 4 to Day 1 in case you are noticing the bump growing- that's how blogger uploads them and I am too lazy today to move everything around