Everything was all packed up and ready to go we were just waiting for the hospital to release me and Hunter. It took what felt like forever and no one was releasing us. Finally at 10:00am we finally start seeing the nurses and they were waiting for the hospital release paperwork. Then one of the nurses came rushing in and said Hunter needed to go for an ECHO CARDIOGRAM because of his heart murmur. Remember here that we found out about the heart murmur on thrusday and the nurses acted like it was no big deal and that it was a pretty common thing for a baby to have a heart murmur. Now they are acting like it was a life and death situation!! This scared the crap out of Brent and I because no one had really told us why they were doing the echo and no one was letting us know why it was a rushed deal all of a sudden. Me being new mom and all I could have just cried and I felt helpless the only thing I knew is that Hunter was being taken to the nursery for a test and they were going to look at his little heart!! The nurse started to take off with Hunter then she said "Oh well you can go too"!! You bet your ass I am going with my son!!! So dad and I went with hunter to the nursery for his echo cardiogram. I could hear the guy doing the echo talking to another person in the nursery he was showing the other guy what the doctors like to see in the echos but they really were not talking to Brent and I they were just talking to each other. Of Course when you don't know what is going on it scares you even more!!! My heart was dropping to the ground as they were speaking because I did not know anything. We learned that Hunter has 2 small holes in his heart. I thought that Hunter was acting pretty normal and he did not seem to be acting like the holes in his heart were affecting him. After the echo was done we were sent back to our room to wait to hear from the doctor on the echo.
We literally were waiting for hours to hear nothing.
No one had any news for us. The nurses kept peeking in on us to see if we needed anything and some even kept checking to see if the doctors were ready to release Hunter yet. I was as nervous as a new mom could be and Brent was getting really impatient because we were waiting such a long time. The later it was getting in the day the more worried I was getting. I called my mom who reasured me that if Hunter's heart murmur was going to be a problem and was a life and death situation I would have heard something right away. So that did reasure me a little bit. I was really wanting to hear from the doctor just to know if our little guy was ok or not.
Brent was my rock. He kept me calm when I was getting irritated. I was ready to climb the walls! I was getting agitated because I just wanted to know that little Hunter was ok to take home and I wanted to know what we needed to keep an eye. It was around 4:00 ish when we finally talked to a nurse and one of the bosses up on the mom and baby floor that said that they were going to find out if we can be released. We did get released about 20-30 minutes later and we were told that we had to take Hunter to his doctor on monday and get a referral to go see the doctor at the childrens hospital that was going to read the echo for the results.
Homeward bound!! We finally got released and we were on the way home with our little man!!
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