Rebekah's (and Kirsten's) Day Three Update

Update, 7pm: All tests are fine! We checked out around 5pm and are home safe and sound!

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Rebekah will be three days old in a couple hours.

Rebekah is doing great. She's back to her old self: nursing just fine and more alert, just like the first 17 hours. (HA! How many people refer to a three-day-old baby's "old self?" You read it here first!) All her blood tests and stats so far have come back fine (no infection), and she acts fine. We're waiting for one more test that has to stew for 48 hours. Soup's on at 4pm today. We'll see. (Worst-case: If it comes back positive, she's gotta stay seven days and get a course of antibiotics.)

They warned us that baby-docs can be overly very cautious, and might still want to watch her for another 24 hours. Can't blame them, I guess.

Kirsten's doing great, too. Much, much better than last time. She's up and about, and it seems weeks ahead of where she was last time. (Kirsten really gets credit for two births last time, as difficult as that was.)

We just signed Kirten's discharge papers, but we'll stick around for Rebekah.

Thanks for all the prayer! We can tell!

Sorry we haven't been able to call everybody we've wanted to! Hope these blog updates help!