Stephanie and I headed home today around noon. After 4 days in the tiny hospital room it was time to come home. Stephanie is feeling excellent and was ready to have her own bed and room back. Rowan is progressing perfectly in the NICU. He is now able to rest on his side and will start resting on his back tomorrow. He has been feeding with Stephanie and taking a bottle. As his food intake ramps up this week he should completely move off the feeding tube. He will have IV antibiotics for 7 days so his IV won't come out until Wednesday. We still don't know when he will be able to come home. In our previous discussions with the medical team they said 7-10 days is normal and given his current condition we are hoping for 7. He will have a renal ultrasound and ultrasound to look at his brain and both of those scans will be important steps in discharging him. After tests tomorrow and the neonatal team looks at him we'll probably start asking about when he can come home.
Steph will be spending the next days driving back and forth to the hospital. Thankfully it's only 15 minutes from our house. Now that we are home from the hospital we are very anxiously awaiting his arrival home so we can have the whole family here. Thanks for all your prayers, visits and support.
Kyle & Steph
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| Grammy Buck feeding Rowan |
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