Kangaroo Love!

Day 8: Another great day with a very big surprise! Our morning started out like every other so far as we wake up early and start our day.  Being that we are staying an hour away from the hospital we grab our morning breakfast and we are on our way, venturing out in the heavy Ft. Lauderdale/Miami traffic trying to find quicker ways to the hospital with no luck.  As we are driving to the hospital we try to predict what are day will be like.  Today we knew that we would have some Kangaroo time with Haylee but since I did it yesterday it was Ashley’s day today.  We were so anxious to get there and of course we had to blare our girls theme song “Fight Song” when it came on the radio.  We attempted to knock out DEERS (military folks understand) by going to SOUTHCOM but there was only 1 person working with about 80 people in line so we scratched that and decided to get to the hospital earlier.  We will just have to reattempt that on a later day.  When we got to the NICU both Haylee and Rylee had already ate in the last hour so kangaroo time was a go as soon as we got in.  As Haylee was in Ashley’s arms we noticed the nurse moving Rylee’s IV over closer to the chair Ashley was sitting in.  We were confused, so I asked and what do you know, the doctor OK’d kangaroo time with Rylee as well because they are finally going to remove her umbilical line tonight!!

Since Haylee was already in her mommy’s arms, guess who got to hold Rylee for the first time…that’s right, daddy! It was such an amazing feeling.  She is so much smaller than Haylee and I could almost cup her in one hand if I could.  As Ashley already posted, we were able to kangaroo both babies together at the same time!

Haylee is on full feeds now so it looks like her PICC line will be removed soon and Rylee is 1 ML away from full feeds.  This is very good news and we look forward to them having one less less line connecting to them.

Also, we are so excited for tomorrow and for my brothers wedding and Emily becoming a permanent member of the family.  We wish so much we could be there but we will be thinking about them throughout the day!  Stay Strong!