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This picture was taken when I was only a few hours old. The first visitors who came to the hospital were Auntie Christine, Nai-Nai (Granma Michelle) and my cousin Emily. |
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Later that day, Grandpa and Grandma Vinger came, as well as Great Grandpa Vinger, Uncle John, cousin Alex and Mee-Ma (Grandma Miriam) . Mom said this | |||||
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| Auntie Laura and Auntie Heather came the next day. When Auntie Laura held me in her arms, I had my eyes closed the entire time. But my eyes were wide opened for Auntie Heather. I even sucked on her finger. |  |
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| Back then, my eyes were hazel green.
I was in the hospital for 4 days. The doctors wanted us to stay for one more day but we were anxious to get home. It was almost |
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| impossible to get much rest at the hospital. Too many doctors and nurses coming in and out. I think we had a total of 12 nurses during our stay. We did have a student nurse that was very nice. Her name is Katie and she lives in Champlin. I hope she will baby sit for us someday. | ||||||
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The reason we were supposed to stay longer was because I had lost 10% of my weight by Day 4, so the doctor wanted to make sure I was seen by a physician the next day. Mom made me an appointment to see Dr. Smelzer at PIP in Brooklyn Park, so the hospital doctors would discharge us. |
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| This is a picture of me in my "Going Home Outfit" with "Chop-chop", my sleeping buddy. The outfit was a little too big for me at | ||||||
| the time, the hat kept falling over and covered my eyes. It was really annoying! | ||||||
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| Look at me all bundled up "outside" of mom's belly!! It was hard to believe I was "inside" her belly just a few days earlier. Mom said this was her first time in a wheel chair (another thing to cross off her "Things To Do Before She Turns 40" list). The weather was cold and wet the day they brought me home. I didn't like my first car ride at all. I cried quite a bit Dad had to stop twice between the hospital and home so they could take me out of the car seat so I would stop wailing. We also stopped by the SA station in Champlin so I can be fed. Back then it took 2 people to feed me because I had to eat using a dropper while sucking on someone's finger (I didn't learn how to suck until Day 6). | ||||||
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| Life was much better after we got home. Mom's milk came on Day 5, I learned how to suck and latch on on Day 6 and started gaining weight fast. When the home care nurse came to see me on Day 7, I was back up to 9 Ib 4 ozs. | ||||||
