No Place Like Home

Monday morning Eva spent her only time in the nursery from 12:30 - 3 AM when she made her hunger known to the nurses. I was relieved to get some uninterrupted sleep even for that little time.

After taking Carmen & Gabe to school, David & P-Lo hurried to the hospital to bring paperwork I needed filled out by the doctor before we were released.

Dr. R called and asked if I minded if one of his collegues checked on me because he was really busy; his office was moving to a new office that day. As it turned out, Eva was his last delivery at this hospital. He had offered to let me go home on Sunday, but said the pediatrician would probably want to keep an eye on Evangelina another day because of the group B strep.

The person who came to weigh Eva undressed and awoke her, put her on the scale, then redressed her, turned around to write down the number on the scale, and the scale had turned itself off, so she had to start over again. Eva did not appreciate being undressed again. I asked how much she weighed because the scale showed 3545 grams and the person weighing her didn't know how to convert the numbers. Later I found out she had lost half a pound, down to 7 lbs, 13 oz.

My nurse that morning said she was trying to have my paperwork and everything ready to release me by 11:30. We had talked about going to Pappasitos before we went home like we did after Paloma was born, but we didn't have an infant seat yet, so we abandoned that idea.




Nutrition Services delivered my lunch at 11:15 and at 11:20, our cart arrived to take us to the car. Because Paloma was so interested in my cafeteria food, we asked the guy if he could come back in 15 minutes. He lied and said yes.

TWO HOURS later (imagine trying to keep a toddler happy this long: "Go dance in the hall, Paloma," I actually said to her), a second cart arrived. David was shooting video, too, so he didn't notice Paloma's eyes were closed in this picture.
Instead of Pappasitos, David & I ate Whataburgers and he dropped me off to look at infant seats at Babies R Us because both Paloma and Eva were asleep in the car.

There were so many choices, I couldn't begin to decide. Eva can keep using Paloma's seat from my car since I can't drive for two weeks anyway.

As we arrived in our neighborhood, I was struck by how green and beautiful everything looked. It was winter when we left in the dark three days before, and now spring had sprung!