{"id":365,"date":"2011-10-29T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newlifedesign.wordpress.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2016-08-18T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:19:36","slug":"notes-on-nathanaels-arrival-102011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/29\/notes-on-nathanaels-arrival-102011\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Nathanael’s Arrival – 10\/20\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n

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After only getting 3-4 hours of sleep our day began.\u00a0 The Doctor came in early to check on me and all seemed well with my incision and progress.\u00a0 My body temperature was a little more regulated by this point and I was beginning to get back to feeling a little more like myself.\u00a0 As the Doctor left I was soon greeted with hospital food!\u00a0 Oh, joy!\u00a0 I have decided that the only thing that they fix well is jello!\u00a0 And when you are on a \u201csoft\u201d diet like I was, jello is pretty appealing.\u00a0 When the nurses changed over that morning we were blessed to have another great nurse.\u00a0 I was doing well until about lunchtime.\u00a0 I\u2019ll spare you all the details but just suffice to say I took a bit of a step backwards.\u00a0 I had been told that I could be wheeled over to see Nathanael in the NICU when there were certain things I could do and I think I got a bit anxious about it and that caused a set back.\u00a0 When our sweet nurse got my pain under control she realized what was going on and said,<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to go get a wheelchair and we are going to go see that Baby Boy!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That brought so much peace and was the right solution.\u00a0 Come to find out all my other issues seemed to resolve themselves.<\/p>\n

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We got to meet Nathanael\u2019s nurse who was wonderful.\u00a0 She brought us up to speed on how his tests were turning out, where he was with being able to maintain a proper blood sugar level and how he was doing with eating and pottying.\u00a0 She even let me change his diaper.\u00a0 He was not happy as they had to stick him to draw more blood and he does not like his diaper changed.\u00a0 We watched his blood pressure, respirations and heart rate numbers on the monitor above his little bed and when they handed him to me and I began to talk to him we noticed that immediately his numbers began to drop back down to the normal range.\u00a0 How cool is that!\u00a0 They really know their mother’s voice!\u00a0 We had a sweet visit with him for a couple of hours.\u00a0 The world of NICU is quite amazing.\u00a0 The Pediatric doctors and nurses over there are amazing and I can not help to thing that our Abba Father walks in and out of those small, dimly lite rooms watching over those babies.\u00a0 When we took a good look around and then looked back at Nathanael we immediately knew how blessed we were and how great a miracle our God had performed.\u00a0 After dinner we got to go back over again for another visit and learn about how to feed a preemie infant and learn whether or not he would be able to be in our room with us on Friday.\u00a0 His blood sugar levels were holding pretty good so we got the go ahead.<\/p>\n

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It had been an exhausting day but we were relieved that our little guy was doing much better and Friday was looking to be a good day.<\/p>\n

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More about Friday tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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Dana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday   After only getting 3-4 hours of sleep our day began.\u00a0 The Doctor came in early to check on me and all seemed well with my incision and progress.\u00a0 My body temperature was a little more regulated by this point and I was beginning to get back to feeling a little more like myself.\u00a0 As the Doctor left I was soon greeted with hospital food!\u00a0 Oh, joy!\u00a0 I have decided that the only thing that they fix well is jello!\u00a0 And when you are on a \u201csoft\u201d diet like I was, jello is pretty appealing.\u00a0 When the nurses changed over that morning we were blessed to have another great nurse.\u00a0 I was doing well until about lunchtime.\u00a0 I\u2019ll spare you all the details but just suffice to say I took a bit of a step backwards.\u00a0 I had been told that I could be wheeled over to see Nathanael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":524,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anewlifedesign.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}