While I am on baby watch duty so Michelle can eat dinner, I figured it would be a good time to go over a few more things from the hospital.
Matthew’s meeting with Morgan, went great. I think Michelle and I both were a little concerned over the fact that there wasn’t much personalization for Matthew leading up to the birth, so I for one wasn’t sure how he was going to adjust to her, but we couldn’t ask for anything better to be honest. Matthew loves on her all the time and wants to be right next to her and hold her and the whole nine yards. It really is wonderful to see. Two wonderful things that came out of yesterday though, I have to share.
Michelle got up to get the portable breast pump that the hospital left us to pump, more on that shortly, and she was rolling it over to the bed. Matthew was standing next to me out of Michelle’s way and he looks over at her and says “Mommy, is that a gas pump?” Where this came from I have no idea, but it was absolutely hilarious. It was difficult for Michelle to not laugh to hard because it hurt so much.
Next as I was holding Morgan, Matthew was next to me petting her face and giving her kisses. He looks up at me and says so matter-of-factly, “Why’s she not purring?” I had to make sure everyone in the room heard that one. Boy can you tell we are cat people or what 🙂 We later explained to Matthew that only kitty’s purr 🙂
So back to the breast pump. Michelle is very much in favor of breast feeding and was adamant with me that she wanted to ensure whatever happened in surgery that she was to breast feed Morgan an hour after she was born. So we got all finished and back to the recovery room and she was able to feed her, all was well. I think she even fed her again once we got to our next room, but I could be mistaken. Well of course as I go to pick up Matthew and take my mom home, a nurse comes in and tells Michelle that she can’t breast feed, there is an issue with her medication. Now let me remind you we have seen umpteen doctors during this pregnancy. We saw a regular OB, we saw a high risk OB, Michelle saw her Lupus doctor in Baltimore, she saw a Lupus doctor in Philly, she saw a psychiatrist in altimore, and I can’t even count the total number of visits. But what I can count is the number of times there was an issue about breast feeding, none. Michelle made it a point to ensure her vast medications would not in any way bother the baby in utero or afterwards during breast feeding. Well apparently one doctor/nurse here at HUP got a hair up her butt about Wellbutrin. So she said, was not a recommendation as they later tried to say it was, she couldn’t breast feed until more info was known and discussed. So Morgan was given bottles of formula until the issue could be resolved. Well after discussing with numerous doctors during the day and Michelle calling most of her doctors to get them to contact HUP and let them know there was no issue, they said OK, it won’t be a problem, but not so fast. Turns out for whatever reason they decided that Prilosec was not the devil and she could not be on it and breast feed. So now we had to wait 24 hours to get the Prilosec out of her system before she was able to breast feed. Well one sympathetic nurse let Michelle breast feed her that night and she has continued ever since. Problem with all this is, well there is too many to discuss in detail but, Morgan didn’t want to latch on in the beginning, nipple confusion as they say, but no arm no foul as she has taken very well to things today.
Michelle is doing good as long as they keep her percocet and Motrin in her. Morgan is doing great. She is one lazy kid 🙂 Sleeps most of the day and is the quietest thing in the world as long as you let her be. The minute you try moving her around or uncovering her, she starts to wail.
Finally, barring any setbacks tomorrow is going home day! We hope to be out of here by noon, but we’ll see how everything goes. Nurse said they should be in in the morning to remove Michelle’s staples and there is nothing left for Morgan so after that we should be fine. Will post again as soon as we get home to let everyone know. Sorry no pictures tonight because I will be staying here and don’t have a memory card slot in this laptop. But I will make sure I post some tomorrow. Thanks to everyone for their thoughts, prayers, emails, the works. It’s greatly appreciated.
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