October 27th: I may need to clarify something about Baby Rehab. Duke is in a separate facility for Baby Rehab, not home and going back and forth to the facility, though I wish he was home. The place where Duke is now is the Hospital for Sick Children in DC, which sounds worse than it is. Where Duke currently is rehabbing is for babies that don’t need the intensive care of a NICU, but still are not ready to come home. Duke qualifies for Rehab with his drinking problem (the rehab jokes are going to keep coming).
(Duke looks like my sister in this pic) Our day started off with getting Duke prepped for the move with packing up his room and the very cool things the ladies in reception have made him. We did our normal routine which was a little bottle feeding (5 ml) and ensuring he was clean before transport came. The transportation unit came to transport Duke to Rehab (a baby seat strapped to a stretcher…weird). Duke slept through the ride and his vitals were up, it is like I said I knew he would be a good driver because this was when he didn’t kick me while I was expecting.
When I got to Rehab I had so much fun….filling out paperwork and finding out how much my co-pay was. I then got to see Duke get an exam which looked painful but he had his eyes open and cooing at the nurses so it must not have been too bad . Of course he loves the nurses and the nurses love him. Then I spent the rest of the afternoon labeling bottles of breast milk (110 bottles). Duke has 4 roommates, which leads to a more noisy room, but he slept through it. Duke seems okay with this place. I am sure to get use to this place, but Children’s Hospital was so amazing I am spoiled.
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