Day 2 - Going Home

Day 2 - Going Home

After being told we'd be released the previous day, then that we'd be released at noon today, by the time 2pm rolled around I was about to scream. I wanted to be at home desperately.

Baby was released, we watched the required release video, all we were waiting on was my discharge from my doctor.

Because of this, I didn't want to I sign the birth certificate yet, since we still had time. I finally deciding on spelling Tristyn with a 'y' and not a 'e', for femininity and uniqueness, but I almost changed her name to Avery at the last minute. I also almost went with Lee for a middle name because of its family ties, well really I just doubted myself, I don't think I ever was really going to change it from Evangeline. It's a family name as well - my mother's middle name, that's why I chose it. The only other middle name options were Mike's suggestion of Michelle, after my sister, and my suggestion of Yeager, my maiden name.

I knew her name would be Tristyn Evangeline before she was actually born, but I just didn't want to make it official, and I really took this time to make certain it fit. Much to the dismay of the clerk who desperately wanted me to sign and hand over that certificate, I took most of the morning to mull it over. During the mulling, I fell asleep. Mike said she came in to check if I had signed it, and he not realizing I had done so already, told her I was sleeping and to come back later. He said she looked like she was going to cry. He felt so bad for her, he later took the certificate and walked all around the place looking for her to deliver it. Uhh, sorry, its an important task and I was not going to let her rush me.

Finally the midwife from my doctors office came to discharge me. She literally talked to me for about a minute and a half, and that was it. I waited alllll daaang morning and half of the afternoon for a stinkin pep talk. We coulda been out of there at 10am! Whatever as soon as she walked out the door I sprung up and we headed home. I hadn't been outside since early Sunday morning, I had no idea how muggy and gray it was out there. More of an August-type weather than a sunny July afternoon. Mike got the truck running before we came out so me and baby wouldn't be too hot. We strapped in and headed home - finally!