1 Day Old

Our first night in the hospital went as good as a night in a hospital goes. We welcomed more visitors on Wednesday like Camille, Tawna, Sarah and McKai, Grandma Flaherty, Aunt Char, Bob and Terri, Meegan, Chelsee, Rachel, Amber, Katie, Jenny and Alisa. My mom also brought the kids by before they headed back up to Payson. Raylee just wanted to hold him, burp him and love on him. Bradock just kind of likes to observe. Rigdon passed his hearing test which is this first pic. He is all hooked up to the monitors. In fact he was checking out great on everything. He was a zero o. The jaundice level which basically means no jaundice. The hospital pediatrician came in that day to check him out too. Everything looked and sounded great but because I wasn't able to get two doses of the GBS antibiotic she wanted to monitor Rigdon for 48hrs. Brett wasn't too happy about that and after having already discussed it with Belinda he felt we should be able to go home. He kind of raised a stink with the pediatrician about wanting to go home. You could definitely feel the awkwardness in the room. I'm not sure why Brett was raising such a stink but then later that day a social worker came to our room because of some concerns that had risen. Apparently she was told I had denied antibiotics (not true...I just didn't make it to the hospital in time to receive the 2 doses) and then she proceeded to ask us questions in regard to the health and well being of us and Rigdon. Did I know the difference between baby blues and post-partum depression? Did I have ill feelings towards my baby? Do we have support at home? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!!! Darn Brett getting us in trouble. And of course the midwives were in full support of Brett. They felt like this is why so much money is wasted on unnecessary healthcare. I'm healthy, Rigdon is healthy so why keeps us in the hospital any longer. Needless to say we complied with the pediatrician's recommendations and stayed another night. Let's just say we were very excited and anxious to leave the next day.