Home Again

Baker was finally transported back to his old NICU Thursday night around 10:00 PM. Here is what happened since my last post. I have to correct the record a little bit as far as the experience we had at the other hospital. He actually had really excellent nurses throughout his stay and they made the difference and helped with the adjustment of being in a new hospital. On the night of his surgery we stayed by his bedside pretty late into the morning and his nurse had one of the Parent Child rooms cleaned out for us to sleep. These rooms are normally for parents with children that are transitioning out of the NICU to home. We were told that evening that they were probably going to transport Baker back with his breathing tube to his original NICU in the morning.

We slept a little bit and checked on his status. They had no idea when they were moving him and still thought they were going to transport him back intubated. His belly was swollen and hard and he threw up this brown stuff. We got worried and the nurse explained that they gave him all of his vitamins, caffeine, and medicines through his feeding tube on an empty stomach. She didn't have an order to give them through his IV line. She called over a doctor (resident actually) I think she was our age or younger and had no idea that his medications could be delivered IV instead of orally. She didn't have any answers to our questions either. It was around 11:00 am when this was all going down and they still had no idea when, how or who was going to transport Baker back to his primary NICU.

Most of this day was a blur, but from what I recall this morning after that we left the NICU and called his primary Neonatologist and told her what was going on. She assured us that Baker will be transported back to their NICU without the breathing tube, and it will happen today. We called his nurse back and she explained that Baker pulled his own breathing tube out, they put him back on the nasal and he was doing fine with his breathing.

Finally they got him back to his current home (away from home) that evening. He is recovering well so far, but still can't open his eyes.