Sunday the NICU team confirmed that we would be taking him home.....'as long as everything continues to go well'
They always make sure to have a loophole!
Even though Max hadn't completely passed his eye exam, they decided he was safe to go on 'wall air' which means we can take him home. He will have an eye check-up again on Saturday and I am hoping there will be zero signs of ROP :)

Pretty nice Fathers Day present!

McKay-Dee does something called 'rooming-in' where Max and I stay in a room....alone...overnight. It can be longer if I ask, but at least one overnight. The nurses come to bring him a bottle and check him at least every 4 hours, other than that I'm on my own.
Because of insurance issues I ended up 'rooming in' on Monday night...barely by the skin of my teeth. We were supposed to have Max set up on the exact same monitors and oxygen that he would be coming home with, but the nurses took pity on me and just let me use the hospital stuff instead. Thankfully, oh so thankfully, did it all come together so that we could make it home on Tuesday afternoon.

Rooming in SUCKED. I almost cried a million times and it made me terrified to take him home. Completely and totally scared out of my pants. I don't even want to talk about it. haha!

We survived and slowly but surely everything fell into place to come home and pulled into the driveway around 2:30pm after waiting what felt like a million years. My heart was beating like a race-horse the whole way home. Thank heavens for S who knew exactly what to say and do to help me chill.

Everything was better once we were home, and our first night (and since then) home was a CAKEWALK compared to rooming in. (No joke, it was a terrible night there)

After 87 days....our baby is FINALLY home :)