First Day Home

We were able to pick Gage up from the hospital the morning after I was discharged. I was soooo excited to get this little man home. I seriously started squealing when I got the call from the NICU that we were clear to come get him. Look at how teeny he is in his car seat:

Feeding the little man at home:

The Mama stopped by to get in some snuggling:

She came down with a horrible cold and pinkeye a couple of days later, so for the whole next week, she steered clear of Gage. I was grateful for that. I didn't want him to get sick when he's just so little. However, we did rush him to his pediatrician's office later in the evening on that same day that we brought him home. He was working really hard to breathe. We tried to suction him with those little booger sucker thingeys, but it wasn't doing much for him. His doc, after much listening to his lungs, discovered that he was just stuffed up in his nose. His nurse dripped some saline into each nostril, and then suctioned, and voila. Booger city. His doc decided that having that awful ventilation tube going through his nose down to his lung kind of irritated the sinuses, causing the boogerness. I was so glad it wasn't something worse. He breathed easily from then on.

We gave him a bath that night:

Ben is so smart. He put Gage's towel in the dryer for a few minutes before we took him out of the sink. He was loving the warmth of the towel:

Heck, I love warm towels. And those warmed-up blankets they put on you in the hospital. Ahhh.

Gage, as Ben said in a blessing he gave me months ago, has been such a blessing in our home. He is a really good sport. He is on a fantastic eating/playing/sleeping schedule. He's happy snuggling with us or hanging out in his bouncy chair or swing. I've never, ever had such a happy newborn. It's awesome. I'm just soaking up every moment with him, because I know he is my last child. I cuddle him and kiss his little perpetually-wrinkled forehead and stroke his peach fuzz on his back. I smell his hair and stroke his soft little cheeks. I adore him. I'm so, so happy he is in our family.

And I am so, so happy not to be pregnant anymore. :)