Mom of 2

I went to the hospital early today so I could 'kangaroo' with Lawson. This is what the NICU considers a special way of holding your baby. You wear a button front blouse and unbutton it, then hold your baby, skin to skin, to encourage closeness and bonding. I wish I could find the words to describe that experience today! I sat with Lawson on my chest for about 2 hours today. Just before I left the hospital, they removed his nasal cannula. He was breathing beautifully and his oxygen saturation was between 98 - 100% (that's really good) with no support. So at this point the only tube he has left is the gavage feeding tube. It will remain until he learns to feed, which hopefully will be very soon!!

As I was leaving the hospital, Brian was arriving for his turn to visit with Lawson. I planned my day so that I could leave the hospital early enough to pick up Lacey from daycare. Her class is creating a vegetable garden and her teachers have asked us to donate some plants. Lacey was SUPER excited about it, so we went to Lowe's for Lacey to pick out some vegetable plants and flowers. She was just adorable, carefully picking each plant- watermelon, cantelope, sweet banana peppers, tomatoes, rutabaga, yellow bell peppers. She's actually excited to eat what they're growing. We'll see how that works out. lol

It was a great day with both of my children. Hopefully it won't be much longer before I can have a great day with both of my children at the same time!