Days 84 - 87: It's almost time to bring him home!

Hi folks!

First let us set your minds at ease, we have every intention of keeping up the blog and pictures once Zachary comes home. It may not be as frequently, but keep checking!

Now onto the real news! Yes, they are still telling us that he'll be coming home tomorrow. We are soooo excited! We moved out of Stephen's mom's house this morning as we will be "rooming in" at the hospital tonight. We will be staying with Zachary in a hospital room and taking care of him all by ourselves, but the nurses will only be down the hall if we need them. We are very, very excited about this. We have been looking forward to taking over his care for so long!

On Sunday we got trained in infant CPR and also what to do if he starts choking. Yesterday we were trained on his portable oxygen and his heart/breathing monitor. Zachary has had his sleep study, car seat study (both of which reflect that he needs to be on continuous oxygen) and he also had an ultrasound of his kidneys (which looked fine). Tonight he will have his developmental exam and then we'll get to take him to our hospital room for our family bonding time.

His pediatrician, Dr. Gray, has been coming to see him over the past few days and Zachary has already given her a big smile. She's familiar with him and all that he has been through. We'll be talking to her later this week and seeing her next week. She's going to be helping us with coordinating his other appointments (with the cardiologist, pulmonolist and opthamologist) and checking him herself and making sure he's doing just fine.

Zachary is nursing once a day and is drinking eight bottles a day, containing at least 55 mls at each feeding. He now weighs 6 pounds, 3.1 ounces and measures 18 and 1/8 inches. Remember when he was born (almost three months ago) he weighed 1 pound, 14.5 ounces and measured 13 and 3/8 inches. His three month birthday is Friday and his actual due date is Saturday.

That's about all that is going on. We'll be sure to take lots of pictures of the "rooming in" and of his homecoming. Thanks so much to everyone, all of your prayers, comments, thoughts, love and care have brought us to this moment. We appreciate all of you.

Love to all!