how soon after meeting with discharge did you acutally leave NICU?

mcvgal · December 2011

So on Tuesday our nurse said we would most likely meet with the discharge specialist sometime next week, however she ended up meeting with us on Thursday. I though it was really early since Manuel is still in the Isolette and no one had even mentioned an estimated date for him leaving.

now it seems like things are moving very quickly and I just don't want to get my hopes up to high yet. He's done very well off of the Nasal Canula for more than 24 hours now, yesterday he had 3 breastfed meals only (no tube feeding), but only 2 today. He's had no bradys for 2 days now. All these little things just seem like huge milestones at the same time.

Manuel was born at 30 weeks and will be 1 month next week so I wonder if that is why we had the meetign at this time. I know he still has some more growing to do, but again was just wondering how long after your meeting was your LO released?

TIA

ktrkate · December 2011

We met with the discharge nurse for the first time about a week before our little girl was released. It all went very quickly for us at the end. I think they were careful not to tell us an estimated release date so as to not get our hopes up until they knew for sure. I remember the nurse saying "we're waiting for the doctors to do rounds in order to confirm, but your baby is probably going home tomorrow". Just like that - boom. Baby home! I hope everything continues to go well for you and your little one

Mrs. Alice · December 2011

We didnt have any official "meeting". It was more like, Miles is in an open crib, maintaining his temps, off the caffeine, off 02, now he needs to take all his PO feedings and if he doesn't have any "events" for 48 hours he can go home. He was about 36-37 weeks GA at that time. Anyway, he was all on track to go home in a couple days and then he had a big ol' brady/desat that required stimulation after his 2 month shots. The protocol was that he had to then go 7 more days with no events in order to go home. By that time his brother was ready and they both got sent home on apnea monitors at 38w4d.