Noa Comes Home

Good News!! Noa should be released today (that sounds like he's been in jail) if all goes well. I have been up since just after 4pm in anticipation. It's now 6am and I think I will wake up the rest of the house as soon as I take a shower. The doctor's do their rounds between 8 and 10 so by the time we get everyone up and dressed and Ian to school - I should be able to take my little munchkin home! I was so happy yesterday when they told us. They let me try to nurse him yesterday but it was unsuccessful. He isn't used to working at nursing now that he has been bottle fed for the last 4 days. Time and patience should solve the problem. It did with Ian when we first brought him home and things got out of wack. Then he wouldn't stop so hopefully things will work out as well for Noa. Yeah for little Noa. I can't wait to snuggle him all day long. He has been just laying in a light bed with not enough kisses for too many days. Aaron and I will make up for it!!

Noa Douglas Stek

Noa Douglas Stek was born at Prentice Hospital at 3:33am on June 5, 2009. He was born at 36 weeks - one week premature and four weeks early. In spite of this he weighed in at a healthy 8lbs 9ozs and measured 20 inches. My water broke on Wednesday afternoon and I was induced Thursday morning. The birth went well except that Noa was big and didn't appear to be making progress down my birth canal. Under threat of a c-section, he and I put in a mighty effort and he crowned as the doctor arrived to take me to the operating room. Unfortunately he then got stuck in my pelvic bone and things were a little scary (and a lot painful) for a couple of minutes. We were discharged from the hospital on Saturday afternoon with the stipulation that we call first thing Monday morning to get Noa into the pediatrician's office as his biliruben was elevated. When we went to the doctor, there was some concern with a contusion on his right testicle that they thought might be more than birth trauma so we were sent to the ER of Children's Memorial to have a ultrasound performed on it. That turned out to be ok but he was admitted with a very high biliruben level (jaundice). There was concern that this was more than normal infant jaundice because of the very high levels but everything seems to be working out ok. He is responding exceptionally well to treatment (that's my boy!) and we hope that he will be able to come back home on Friday or Saturday.

Grandpa Stek left us this week. He died of cancer on June 6, 2009. He will be missed. I sure wish he could have met Noa. We love you Grandpa.

Weather Bitch

Hello - it's June now! Why is it still so damn cold? So maybe this is a little relative. I mean it isn't 5 degrees below or anything but it is only in the 40's this morning and only supposed to get up to mid 50's. I don't normally participate in weather bitchin' being that I've been in the midwest most of my life and have learned to roll with and be grateful for what cha get, but really now! One of the things I just love is spring time in the midwest and it seems like I got cheated out of that this year. Nothing but rain and chill. ARGH! Bring on the sun!!