He passed!! All the preemies have to take the car seat challenge before they can be discharged from the NICU. This morning we had to bring in his car seat. They buckled our little man into the car seat and hooked up his heart rate and respiratory monitors and monitored him in his car seat for two hours to make sure he does ok sitting up in a car seat for an extended period of time. He passed. He actually seemed to really like his car seat...and that is good because we have a long drive back home ahead of us. I forgot to snap a picture of it, but he looked very cozy in his car seat.
All the babies looked so cute just sitting in their little car seats doing the car seat challenge. I think we are really going to miss our NICU family when we are gone. They take such good care of us and its so nice to have the experts around to answer any of our new parent questions at anytime. This morning our nurse Deb, snuck some extra bottles and formula for us so that we have what we need for the car ride home. She is a hoot. She came around the corner with a garbage bag and was like, "Here you guys...take this....this will make the car ride so much easier. Now run along. Get outta here before they see you. " We hussled out of that NICU so fast and now we have some of the premade formula bottles to get us to TX. Yay Deb. What a blessing these nurses have been. Ben is in very good hands!
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