It struck me today as I was signing thank you cards that we are now a family of four. How wonderful is that! It still doesn't feel totally complete yet, though, since we're not all together very often. Owen visits Sophie 1 or 2 times a week, so it's usually my "Owen family time" and then "Sophie family time". Sophie doesn't feel completely "ours" yet - that won't happen until she comes home.
Which, unfortunately, will be a while. We were spoiled by Owen being able to come home from the hospital so quickly. Today we had a family meeting with the pediatrician at the hospital. We didn't have any new info, but it was good to get everything explained again to make sure we understood everything. The current plan is to do the anal repositioning surgery not this week, but next week. They would do the cholangiogram (to take a closer look at the liver to see exactly what the issue is) at the same time. If it does turn out to be biliary atresia, they would do the Kasai surgery to fix it about a week later. She would then be in the hospital to recover probably two weeks after that. Which totals up to 4-5 more weeks, getting her close to her due date. She's already been in the hospital for 2.5 weeks. That's almost two months! Which is both long and short at the same time. I'm sure the remaining time will go quickly, but it still sounds weird to say my baby will be in the NICU for two months. But I am reminded daily how lucky we are by Sophie's pod-mate, Gavin, who has been in the NICU since 4-5-10 (born at 27 weeks; he will hopefully beat us home). His other pod-mates are triplets - I definitely don't envy them either!!! :-)
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