Homecoming??

Man, I really don't want to jinx it, but... we are so excited that the doctors have indicated that Noah will likely come home tomorrow!

It has been a rough couple of days. In fact, J. and I are hoping that this past Saturday was the scariest day we will ever have in our lives. We got a call from Noah's doctor at about 1 am. They suspected he had a viral infection and told us to come in right away. While Jeremy jumped out of bed to arrange for someone to stay with Lily (thanks again, Anne... second time she came over in the middle of the night in the last few weeks!!) I gave consent for a spinal tap and other emergency measures on my 9-day-old son. We drove to the hospital expecting the worst. Noah was transferred to Georgetown's NICU for treatment.

As a side note - when he arrived at Georgetown, this is what it looked like. Noah was in the box on the upper right-hand side. The Georgetown staff has joked with us that this is the photo we should show him the first time he asks for a car...

Without going into a lot of detail, it turns out that all of this was likely due to an issue with Noah's medication... not any infection. (This was just an added bonus to the severe meconium aspiration that his little body was dealing with.) We had a meeting with the neonatal staff at Georgetown this afternoon. After discussing the past two days with them, they ended the meeting by telling us we can take him home!

We're crossing our fingers that he's at home this time tomorrow, and Lily is very excited to "hold baby Noah."