Homecoming at last!

The big day that we've been waiting for 111 days has finally come....Rachel is now home!! We picked her up at the hospital around 9am Sunday and after all the last minute instructions, consulting with her Neonatalogist, signing paperwork we were able to give Rachel her first breath of outside fresh air.

She is still on 1/4 liter of oxygen, so we have a home machine that is on all the time, with spare travel tanks for when we have to drive her to the doctor appointments. Her doctor expects that she will be on oxygen for another 6-10 weeks. Her pediatrician will decide when its time to start weaning her off. She's also on 26mg of caffene per day, which we have to give her with a little bit of milk (and it tastes BAD). We had some initial trouble ordering it but they sent us home with enough dosage to make it through Monday and we'll pick up the perscription today. To put it in perspective, a can of coke has 2mg of caffene so you'd have to have 13 cans of coke to equal her dosage. WOW! We'll also have to get her weaned off of that probably around the time she starts going without the oxygen machine.

Enjoy the pics and thank you for all your thoughts and prayers for Rachel,
Rob and Jen

Weekend of Nov 14 pictures

Homecoming day!!