Nora is ready to go home (and so am I)

Nora tested out her car seat yesterday. She had to sit in the seat for an hour while hooked up to her apnea monitor to make sure she could still breath in the seat. She passed the test. She got board and fell asleep midway through.

I was all set to come home today. Andy and I came up to the hospital together, I brought some pj's with feet for her to wear home and took home most of her stuff from the hospital. Unfortunately, she is not coming home until tomorrow though. I am pretty annoyed that she is not coming home today. She is eating great, but this morning before we got here her apnea monitor went off twice. This monitors her breathing. If she doesn't take a breath for 30 seconds, it goes off. The nurse is supposed to come in and observe if the baby is ok without intervening for a moment. If the baby is fine, then the nurse makes a note that the baby self-corrected for the apnea and moves on. The first nurse came in and touched Nora to see if she was okay. Therefore, they say that the nurse intervened and they can't conclude that she self-corrected. The second nurse flipped the light on. Same thing. Since the nurse stimulated her with light they can't conclude. Why the nurses don't know how to do their job, I don't know. Later, another nurse moved her leads that are stuck on her abdomen and she hasn't had an alarm since. So now, Dr. Moline says we have to stay another day - just in case. The stupid monitor hasn't gone off for weeks and now 2 alarms that were mishandled by the nurses results in another day in this hell hole. He says she will go home tomorrow, but if she has more alarms we will bring the monitor home with us.

I don't understand why we can't just go home today with the monitor. Personally, I think it is because it is Sunday. There is only 1 doctor here and he has 48 patients to see. And, as I have come to learn in the 26 days we have been here, the doctors' time is infinitely more valuable than mine - at least in their mind. It is way easier for him to say, "Keep her until tomorrow" and not deal with it.

It seems to me that they would want the room vacated though. The NICU is at max capacity. If a baby is born in SW MI tonight who needs the NICU they will have to be taken by ambulance to Grand Rapids or Ann Arbor.

Maybe I should tell them that she doesn't have health insurance anymore. That may get them to release her a little more quickly! I so annoyed right now and just want to get out of here!!!!!!!!!