Leaving the NICU for good

William is being discharged today! We are so proud and glad to get him home! He has made so much progress, as have his brothers, and Thomas and I are in awe of these three little warriors. 

Time spent in the NICU:

Ryan - 68 days

Stokes - 70 days

William - 74 days

Big scares = very few

Not too bad for 27 weekers! Just think...these guys are already 10.5 weeks  old and still aren't at their full term due date, November 24.  They are incredible!

We aren't totally out of the woods yet. We have follow up appointments with a lot of doctors to prove that point. But all things considered, everything is great ! We are so blessed to have these three beautiful baby boys.

We are pumped that we are all out of the NICU, but we will really miss all the awesome people we met here. The doctors, nurses, case managers, other NICU parents, March of Dimes reps, etc made this experience a whole lot better than it could have been. 

Primary nurse, Ruth Ann, with Ryan 

Primary nurse, Kathleen, with William 

I didn't get a picture of our primary night nurse, Amanda. :( We love her, too!

I didn't post about it earlier, but although the NICU is a serious place, every now and then they have some fun, too! One example...Halloween! They dress up all the babies and take pictures. We chose surfer costumes for the boys. We had limited options to have all 3 match! They were so cute as little surfers but it was hard to get a picture with all three of them happy. I sense this may be a trend ha! Here are the results:

Stokes

Ryan

William 

All 3

Pictures of discharge

Ryan - Friday, November 1

Stokes - Sunday, November 3

William - Thursday, November 7

I love this picture and wanted to sneak it in this post! Ryan with MaSha (Thomas' mom) the day after he came home.

World's greatest Dad with 2 of his boys, Ryan & Stokes