Jaundice

Our sweet little Norah is a week old already!  Unfortunately, in that one week sweet girly has only not been poked two days!  In the hospital they deemed she had a touch of jaundice and Tristan did too but it wasn't like this.  When we went home with Tristan we just had to make sure he stayed in the sun for a little bit, and when he went in for his couple day check up he was fine.  Poor Norah had to start being under the biliblanket and the UV light... and she hated those glasses they put on her!  They looked kinda cute on her though... she looked like she was heading to the little baby tanner haha.

Unfortunately, when we went home her count was still up... so we had to keep getting blood work done.  We are now at the point where we had to rent a biliblanket and she has been on it since Wednesday.  Its this machine that has a UV bulb and there is a cord that connects to a paddle that has fiberoptic things in it that she wears on her back that will help with getting rid of the excess bilirubin.  It makes things a little bit more interesting because the cord is only so long so getting her out of her bed and trying to feed her gives us a limited range of motion.  I was feeling down after her last appointment because I was really hoping that she would be off the machine but she wasn't...

You can see the blue glow 

I just feel so badly for her because I would think that its not very comfortable but she doesn't seem to care.  The first night she had it on though she cried and screamed the entire time.  :(  I didn't know if she was uncomfortable because of the new hardware, but I think she just had a tummy ache because she blew out her diaper the next morning...

Anyway, the Dr didn't seem concerned that she was unhealthy, and that it should fix itself soon.  They said that especially once my milk came in and she is pooping more it will help flush it out and they think that she is on the downswing so hopefully she will be cleared on Monday!  She is so sweet though and has been sleeping and eating like a champ.  :)

JVG