Averien Comes Home

Our first night at the hospital went well. Averien the first day never wanted to eat. She went all day without eating. She slept the whole time. Nobody could wake her. Finally after not eating for 8 hours she woke up and decided she did want to eat. She then ate what seemed like all the time after that. It was more like every 2 hours though. She was up in the evening eating and then the nurses would come in and check our vitals and then at one point they took her at 3 AM to do some screenings on her. They do those in the evening I think to give the nurses something to do but then also when family isn't around. I didn't mind. I guess she slept through all of her screenings and stuff they do and I was also able to sleep. Enoch had no problem sleeping. He said that he didn't ever wake up when the nurses came in.

The next day (February 3rd) I was pretty tired though and was glad for all the catnaps I took. I had been up all night the night before and didn't get as much sleep as I would have liked the day before. We decided to go home today. I was tired and wanted to sleep in my own bed and the kids wanted us home. I will say it was nice to have food brought to me and the baths in the jetted tubs were amazing but I was ready to go home.

Enoch was gone for a few hours during the day doing some things and then brought Kaelen back. Kaelen watched Finding Nemo and Bambi in the room while I packed, showered and we got ready to go. He also ate lots of pudding and jello from the eating area outside my room.

Grandpa Heileson stopped by too to see Averien. He doesn't like to hold new babies but we made him. I think as tough as he acts he loved it. It was nice for him to visit us and to see Averien.

We wanted to leave the hospital at 3 PM but it never works out the way and we didn't leave till 5 PM. It was so fun getting her dressed and ready to go home. She is such an amazing baby. She rarely cries and makes noises. When we got her dressed she barely made any noise at all. When we got Kaelen dressed to go home from the hospital he screamed. Heck he screamed when we changed his diaper. This was a nice change.

I was so glad that I brought 3 outfits to pick from because she was smaller than I expected and only one of the outfits fit her. She is so petite that in her room full of clothes nothing really fits her right now. I also can't believe how little Averien looked in her car seat. It is amazing that she actually could be buckled into it safely.

Coming home was so nice. I was tired but the kids were so excited. They started fighting over who got to hold her. I had to explain to them that she wasn't going anywhere and they would have so many opportunities to hold her. They didn't like that.

Gloria was so wonderful while we were gone. The house was clean, she had made cookies with the kids and she offered to have dinner done when I came home but a friend of my insisted on bringing Papa Murphy's Pizza. That was in the oven when we got home. I don't know what we would have done without Gloria around. Thank you Gloria you saved our lives and made being away from our kids so easy.

We feel so blessed with our little angel. She is so precious and has such a sweet little spirit.
I think also I am just so glad to not be pregnant. I have no more heart burn and can eat what I want. I love it.