Well, we have reached the end of a very long week and are excited to announce that
Davis Jarrell Griffin is HOME!
We were released last night and can hardly describe how it feels to have our family home together. Named after Jeff's father, it was perfectly fitting that the little guy came home on July 19th, Jarrell's birthday. Before I fall into bed in a heap of sleepiness, I thought I would share some pics from a most memorable day.
I propped him up on the hospital bed in his little preemie shorts achieving this funny optical illusion that he is up dancing! He is doing the Happy Dance to be going home!
Big Brother quickly showed him his new room and bed. He pulled up a stool next to the crib, which is now a permanent fixture in the nursery. We love it.
Our two sons. There is so much to write, but I too, need to rest and recover. Thanks again for the prayers, concern, and best wishes. We have felt much support during this past week.
We have felt an overwhelming sense of thankfulness and blessing during all of this. Throughout what seemed like a challenging ordeal, we never lost sight of the fact that we were one of the luckiest sets of parents in the NICU halls. Our baby was one of the healthiest little ones in the Unit. We saw parents who had been there for months, parents of multiples, and micro-preemies who were fighting for their lives. The Unit was filled with exhausted emotional parents and we truly felt a bond. As we rolled him out, we passed the single Mom of a little girl in the crib next to Davis' in the Transitional Nursery. I felt for her as I have watched her in the middle of the night, trying to teach her daughter, Genesis, to swallow and nurse so she could take her baby home, too. I could tell as we passed her and wished her luck that she was genuinely proud and excited for us.
So, Davis had a tiny bit of a rocky start, but it could have been so much worse. I think about the scare at 31 weeks when we received the steroid shots for lung development. We thank God that he was not born then, or our story would have been so much different.
In the meantime, he is a such a champ and as soon as he gets a little bigger, will be ready to meet everyone and take on the world!
1 comment:
It is amazing how Davis is drawn to Jack. It's as if they had already bonded in a secret other-world and they are looking "knowingly" at each other.
It is a sweet mystery to behold.
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