Back to Work

We had an interesting and hectic week returning back to our jobs and life away from the home and hospital. I returned to work on Monday, and Robin went back to work on Wednesday.  Robin returned to work exactly 4 weeks after the baby was born.... after a wickedly fast and rough c-section.  The woman is a superhero.  She did this so she will have plenty of time to continue the bonding and help welcome home KelliAnne when she is able to leave the hospital.  Without doing this, her FMLA time would have been exhausted most likely before baby girl even left the hospital.

Anyway, it was a week full of rapid clean up around the house, and prep to even be ready to go back to work.  Cleaning out emails for me, and for Robin, preparing mentally for a new job (same company, new role).  This also entailed Robin refining her wardrobe.  I don't think she found that to be very fun, but she was absolutely beautiful for her first few days back in the office.  It was the first time she had really had to get up and get dressed nice, put on make up for quite some time considering she had been on bed rest prior to the baby coming.  She looked great, had a pretty good week getting to know her boss and some co-workers.

Leaving for work for me on Monday, and Wednesday for Robin, was a daunting task as we both have become so accustomed to sitting near KelliAnne's incubator for so long, and watching her monitors.  We have also enjoyed getting her out every three hours for feedings, diaper and kangaroo care.  We will not be there for as much of that going forward, but we were able to hustle out of work every night and get to the hospital by 5PM for her feeding and time to be awake and visit with us.

I think KelliAnne knew we returning to work this week, so she made it a little easier.  Her bradychardia has decreased to just 5 or 6 episodes per day, which is lower than you would expect for a baby her age.  She has not desaturated in over a week now.  I mentioned last week the nasal prongs came out, so no more assistance to breathe.  She went 7 full days without desatting so they are no longer monitoring her oxygen saturation levels.  All good stuff and steps in the right direction.