Day 3

Day 3 was pretty uneventful compared to the first two days of life.  She was still having oxygen desats like she has been having all along.  The one thing they did attempt on Day 3 was a PICC line.  Unfortunately they were unsuccessful and decided the would try again the next day.  I discharged from the mom and baby floor this day.  It's such a bittersweet feeling getting to discharge from the hospital and seeing other moms do the same; the only difference is they are able to take their babies home.  After myself being discharged, we took some stuff to NICU and everything else we took to the Jeep.  Chris then took some stuff home and went and spent some time with our big kids.  They LOVED that daddy was home for awhile.  After he got back to the hospital, I decided to take that chance to run to Target really quick to get a few things.  When I returned at 10pm, Chris and Alyssa were both snoozing away.  Of course I expected Alyssa's to be sleeping, but not Chris.  He was wiped out.
Chris and I both slept in Alyssa's room on Day 3.  Although I don't think I did much sleeping as it is really hard to sleep with alarms going off all night alerting you that something isn't quite right with you little one.  I managed though.  She did have an apnea spell once during the night where she quit breathing and the nurse had to lift her up and rub her back good to get her breathing again.  Talk about a scary feeling.  She also struggled with her fever on Day 3 and had to have cold wash clothes put on her forehead and under her arms.  Her room is like a frig in order to help keep her temp down.  At one point the nurse thought she would have to bring in a box fan to cool her down.  Luckily a fan was not needed.