The move downstairs

We were really lucky for a few weeks in the NICU because Joshua was in an isolation room, but not to be isolated, just we had some privacy because he had his own room. It was approaching July 4th and the nurses said that if we were still there for the 4th of July, that we could see stadium of fire fireworks really well out the window of his room.

Well the NICU was getting really crowded and so some of the older babies that were close to going home were sent downstairs to some extra rooms in the Pediatric ward. The babies were still considered part of the NICU and still had NICU nurses but they were just in overflow. Anyway July 3rd Joshua got moved downstairs into the overflow. He went from having his own room, to having 3 babies in a little bit larger room. These were all babies who were going soon, so they were involved with the chaos in trying to get them out.

It made things a little more difficult for a few reasons. One reason was Joshua was already needing to sleep so much to make up for the fact he was almost anemic, but with the craziness going on he was sleeping less, so when I tried to nurse him he would fall asleep, or later when he was being nursed round the clock he wouldn't wake up when he was supposed to. Also it was hard for Brian and me because we were isolated from our friends in the NICU community.

It was annoying but we couldn't complain too much since we were so close to going home.