Nine Weeks and THREE Babies

Logan and Levi snuggling before Logan came home

My beautiful trio are nine weeks old today! :) Logan is HOME as of Monday after a 61 day stay in the NICU, and Levi is coming home today after 63 days! I am the happiest Mom in the world right now. I cannot wait to have them all here later on today!! No more worrying about rides to the hospital and no more wires and leads all over my little ones! Yay for all my stong little cordless babies!!

The last 2 days have been an emotional ROLLAR COASTER! The last I posted, Logan was set to possibly come home, as long as he was taking all of his bottles by mouth. Well, there was a slight scare that could have derailed that plan, and it wasn't his feedings. Apparently, the doctors on the 5th floor found the swelling in Logan's groin to be more than just normal, left over edema from when he was sick. They did an ultrasound of his scrotum and found that he has a double inguinal hernia, one on both sides of his groin. He also has what they call a hydrocele. Hydrocele happens is when the tube that the testies decend through, does not close like it is supposed to, so fluid from the abdomin fills up the scrotum and causes it to become very swollen. Both the hernias and the hydrocele needs to be fixed surgically. They DID allow Logan to come home on Monday, but we have to follow up with the Pediatric Surgeon next week for a surgical consult and to schedule his surgery. The only bright side to this is that he will also get his circumcision while he is under, so that spares him THAT pain I guess. :(  It is a fairly simple and very routine surgery and he won't be as uncomfortable as he is after everything is fixed. I am still upset that he has to have ANY type of surgery. I was hoping we would escape surgeries altogether, but we will get through it and he will be as good as new. He's my strong little man! :)

Logan and Mati finally home together!

Levi, like I mentioned, is coming home today! He is getting a lot better at his feedings (about 85%) but has to come home with an NG tube because of that last 15%. I learned to place one on Monday while I was in the hospital waiting for Logan to be discharged! Although I was petrified at first, I want and need my little guy home with me, so I had to get it together and just do it! It was not as bad as I thought it would be. I got it in without any trouble and was so happy about it! That meant I was finally going to bring my little man home! Can't wait to see him!

So glad ALL my babies will be here with us after today. The NICU was the scariest place in the world to be, at times, these last 9 weeks. It was also the greatest place in the world to be when my baby was sick and needed such extensive care. I am so greatful to all the doctors and nurses who took care of my babies so well and got them to where they are today. Happy, healthy, perfect little angel babies! :) We are SO blessed to have our three little doodle bugs!! :) I will post more pictures tonight once Levi is home with us! <3