{"id":10,"date":"2023-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforharleysliver\/2023\/10\/04\/coming-home\/"},"modified":"2023-10-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:00:00","slug":"coming-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/2023\/10\/04\/coming-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 68 days in the hospital Harley is finally home.&nbsp; About 5 days before coming home they removed her chest tube.&nbsp; This was a huge relief not only because it meant she was well enogh to remove it but that we could finally hold her more freely.&nbsp; The chest tube was tethered so you could not move more than about 3 or 4 feet at the most.&nbsp; Harley did really great just chilling in her crib all day everyday.&nbsp; If you go to the pictures you can see how happy Sophia was to finally be able to cuddle with her baby.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harley still has a drain on her liver and that will eb there for a while (I want to say maybe 6 month to a year if I heard things correctly.)&nbsp; She will have her NJ tube at least until her first birthday &#8211; again based on what I am hearing.&nbsp; The NJ tube is different from an NG tube as it goes to the jejunum instead of to the stomach.&nbsp; This is so they can ensure how many calories Harley is receiving daily.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We have to live a lot more cautiosly than we did before.&nbsp; We try to wear masks if we are going to be around people and our socail life almost no longer exists for the short term.&nbsp; No large indoor gatherings.&nbsp;For now we even say no to large outdoor events while Harley gets stronger.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everyday she amazes us, we really never thought that we woul get this super sweet and happy baby.&nbsp; She is the best baby, always easy to smile, talking and just super happy.&nbsp; She is truely a gift.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 68 days in the hospital Harley is finally home.&nbsp; About 5 days before coming home they removed her chest tube.&nbsp; This was a huge relief not only because it meant she was well enogh to remove it but that we could finally hold her more freely.&nbsp; The chest tube was tethered so you could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforharleysliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}