Ethan, Mommy, and Daddy got to come home from the hospital today. We were nervous to leave the hospital and constant care of the really great postpartum and nursery nurses and the lactation consultants but are excited to start our new lives as parents. Our hospital stay has been very nice. All the Vanderbilt staff have been wonderful to us and we had an exciting day yesterday during a tornado warning in Nashville where all the babies and parents had leave their rooms (because of the windows) and go to the nursery for safety. There were 30 babies and lots of parents in there! Ethan was perfect and I held him the entire time without him even making a peep!
Today, we put Ethan in his cute "going home" -- his first real clothes since being born and took lots of pictures of him in his outfit and in his car seat. He was relaxing in his car seat carrier while we were waiting for the wheelchair to arrive to take me to our car when he dirtied his diaper. Well, Cayne and I aren't the quickest (or most expert) diaper changers so while we were cleaning him up, he wet himself and it got all over him and his clothes, making for a very unhappy baby. Of course, this happened right as the wheelchair arrived! We pulled out an auxiliary outfit and our nurse helped put it on him before wheeling us out to our car.
Ethan seemed mesmerized with the car ride home and I sat in the back to get some photos. We were greeted at home by Grandma Dianne and Granddad Colin, who had arrived from New Zealand on the day he was born. We had a fun time showing his around the house and his new room before all of us collapsed for a nap. We are happy, healthy, and exhausted!!!
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| Almost ready to go! |
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| Daddy putting the car seat in the car. |
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| Bye Bye Vanderbilt! |
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| Looking around on the drive home. |
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| We made it! |
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| About to go inside his home for the first time. |
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| Our family! |
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