Wide Awake at 3 a.m.

Brandon Wade came home today after 36 days in the Santa Monica-UCLA NICU, a week shy of his original birth date. Although it was difficult at times, we feel extremely fortunate that Brandon had the world-class care of the doctors and nurses there. We visited multiple times a day and we consider the staff there like family — we’ll miss them. But we can’t tell you how excited we are to have our son home with us now! Aside from being six weeks early, we were blessed that there were no significant complications. He was discharged this afternoon at almost 6 lbs. 11 oz. and over 20 inches long.