So Worth The Wait ... post 2

After the arrival of Nora Kate the next few days are a little bit of a blur.  The day after her birth she developed jaundice and was placed under the bili lights so we were limited to see her only during visitation times which was hard for this new momma and daddy.

 

Just getting my tan on with my cool girl shades!!

 

My paci covers my whole face but it's yum, yum good!

We visited every opportunity we could and during the mean time we had to shop for new clothes.  We left for the hospital in such a hurry we only packed one change of clothes and of course we couldn't bare to think to leave her in Southaven while we came home to Corinth; so we did the next best thing ... SHOP!!!  Plus this gave us an opportunity to buy her a few little gifts to welcome our sweet girl into this world. 

Nora stayed under the bili lights all day Monday and Monday night and on Tuesday at 11am we finally got to hold her again.  You guessed it this momma and daddy didn't put her down.  Well let me take that back ... we had to put her down a little while so she could take her hearing test plus this gave us a quick opportunity to install the car seat base (remember we thought we had a few more weeks to prepare for this) so out comes the instruction book and poof we were set.  The afternoon flew by as we waited for 4pm.  At 4pm her final labs would be back plus her recheck bili level which was the determining factor for getting discharged.  All came back good so we were set.  The lawyer arrived all documents signed and off we went.

 

So for those unfamiliar with adoption (as we were), there are specific laws you have to abide by when discharging an infant from the hospital.  At this specific hospital Nora could only be released to our lawyer.  So he had to carry her out of the hospital and drive our vehicle off the hospital property.  So I climbed in the back with Nora and Nick followed behind in the lawyer's car.  We met right down the road in the Lowe's parking lot.  It really seemed weird at the time making the exchange in the back of a Lowe's parking lot but I know down the road we will all look back and laugh.  Guess she is one of the first babies to ever go shopping at Lowe's at 2 days old!!!

It seemed like a long drive home from Southaven with rainy weather and all but I didn't mind at all because Ii was sitting right beside our daughter the whole way home ... definitely worth the wait of a lifetime.