Jaundice---not quite but...

We came home Saturday morning around 9 and right before we left the hospital, the nurse let us know that Kamryn's biliruben levels had been tested by the pediatrician that morning and she was in the moderate risk zone for jaundice. So they told us to go to Utah Valley hospital Lab Sunday morning to test biliruben levels in her blood again. We went Sunday morning and found out her levels had increased and she was now in the high-risk zone, SO the doctor ordered a bili-light to come to our house for her to be under for 24 hours and then we had to test her the next day (Monday).

This is her first night under the lights---looks so uncomfortable doesn't it?!
Needless to say she didn't like it very much. I, as mom, didn't like it very much either and couldn't sleep with my little girl under there and fussy.

We went again Monday morning to test her and the levels had gone down, but not enough. So she had to be under the lights for another 24 hours. (Darn!) My parents came down that night to help us take our minds off the fact that she was under there. It wasn't all that bad actually when she was asleep! But when she was awake---she did NOT like it!

We tested her again Tuesday morning and her levels went down just enough to not have her under the lights for 24 hours! Yay! They wanted us to go again Wed morning to make sure she was stable. We went Wednesday and the levels were alright...but they wanted to go one more day. So FINALLY Thursday morning she got poked again (poor girl) and we went to the doctor's office and he said she was stable and did not need to be under the lights anymore!! Hooray!!

So this tiny little girl of ours has spent her first week of life getting her feet poked (5 times) and had to spend 48 hours under bright lights in a suitcase! What an interesting first experience! (We joked around all week about how going to the hospital to be poked was just a part of our morning routine. Luckily she's young enough she won't remember any of it! :) She's been pretty good today, even though we took that part out of the routine! :) jk

I was looking at her feet yesterday after all the poking and had to take a picture. Poor little girl! I'm just glad and grateful it wasn't worse and we didn't have to live at the hospital for anything!