The Weynand Blog

7 days…168 hours…10,080 minutes…604,800 seconds

Wednesday marked one entire week that Eisley has been in the world. We have been so fortunate to spend that much wonderful time with our little one. Where has all that time gone? I wish I could say, but it is hard to keep track of time when you are floating along on a cloud. Some of the time we just sit and stare at her little face with the small features, and then other times we decide that we can’t just let her sit there without being hugged and kissed. Life is so overwhelming right now, but in such a good way.

On Monday we took Eisley for her first appointment with the pediatrician and she did great. Per the doctor, she seems to be doing quite well ‘on the outside’. She had lost four ounces in the hospital, but now is back up to six pounds eleven and a half ounces (half an ounce more than her birth weight). We take her back next week for the two week appointment, and then given that everything is fine, we won’t return until her two month check up.

Happy first week, little one.

After two nights spent in the hospital, we were quite anxious to get home with Eisley and see what it felt like to be ‘on our own’. We did have great care while we were at SAMC, but it just wasn’t the same as being in our own space with our own things. And…the sheets were really a very low thread count (just ask Nicholas about that one).

On Friday morning we were able to have Eisley discharged after she passed all of her initial screenings with the pediatrician. It took a little longer to have me discharged, but after some lengthy paperwork and instructions we were ready to pack up. Eisley got to wear her first real outfit (although it was quite big for her) and she did great on the way out to the car. We got her situated in a relatively short period of time, and started our new journey as a family of three.

When we got home, Nicholas got Eisley out of the car and we proceeded to give her a brief tour of her home (short video below). After much anticipation, it felt so good for all of us to be there together and to just exhale knowing that our daughter is safely home.

**It has been brought to our attention by someone much wiser than us (thank you Lindsay!) that we have been putting Eisley into the car seat incorrectly. Rest assured, we will no longer be “push, push, pushing” Eisley’s little legs through the arm straps.