day 2...in special care

Not a lot of pictures from Day 2..Easton was in special care nursery for most of the day due to his temp. They decided after he warmed up for the third time..that it was not him causing him to get cold, but his environment. This was/is probably one of the most stressful/frustrating parts of adoption. My role in the hospital is to be supportive and keep my mouth shut...not speak up for my child, because while we are there, he is not "mine". I knew he was cold and why he was cold, but I did not feel is was in our best interest to go tell anyone what to do. So I sat there as he kept being unwrapped and played with..despite the nurse saying he must be kept in 2 or 3 blankets. When the nurse came back and he was without ANY blankets, she temp'd him and he was 96.7..this time he bought himself an isolette. This was my first time to cry..1 of 2 times. When we got to the car I was so frustrated (I cried in the car, not in front of anyone..just to clarify!)...because I knew that we had just bought ourselves another day in Abilene, another hotel night and another day away from Charlie...I was so frustrated because I felt that if I was in charge, he'd have stayed wrapped and since I was not....nothing I could do about it. No longer an issue since he is home and we are now in charge! We visited him a few times that day, but only got him out once...which I was more then willing to just pass on that day. I wanted him warm and I wanted to give him every chance to come home on time. But the nurse insisted on getting him out for us..almost demanded! It was nice though..it was our 2nd time to hold him and the only time while we were there that it was just the three of us!

I am planning to write an big "thanks" to the nurses there. When we were there with Charlie we got no love. No one (medically speaking) acknowledged us, spoke to us, addressed us..nothing. And to a point I get that, they are the mom, until they sign we are really nothing....but Charlies mom would defer questions about him to us..like do we want him circ'd, and then they still would not even look at us. This time around we were sooooo loved! Nurses went out of their way to be nice, include us, ask us what we needed..I even had one call me on my cell to make sure I was okay after they put him in special care nursery..they were AWESOME!! And how great they were to me was nothing on how great they were to Easton's mom..all of them really were great....and I work in a hospital and know that is rare!!!!

Our camera has a feature that detects smiles and take the picture on its own when you smile....we had way to much fun with it!!!!
It was amazing the difference we saw in him once he got warm..he came to life and opened his eyes, moved around and was much more fun!!

Out alone time was nice..especially since it was our only time just the three of us for our whole time there!

smile feature..we really stayed entertained!

loving on my boy

to tired to turn this around!

check out his shoes!!! Thanks Lacie..I love them!!!! and so did everyone there, they were a big hit! He actually seemed to like his isolette..makes sense, I'm sure he like to be warm!!

Super sweet picture of him and his other mom

This was his first outfit and he was too cute..until he pooped about an hour later! If you guys thought I changed Charlie a lot, watch out!! Easton was in 5 outfits the first day we were home..he has explosive poop about every 5 min!!!..I only wish I was kidding about that!