Doesn't this pic remind you of ET? She is like a little alien all strapped in there. At least in this picture she is sleeping. Most of the time she is screaming hysterically. Pray her levels go down sooooooon. We are delerious from nursing, burping, fixing a bottle, supplementing with formula(I HATE doing this, but the nurses said formula gets the bilirubin out faster), burping again, changing her diaper, putting her in the bed, pumping, then having about 30 minutes before it all starts again. Whew! Welcome to the world little yellow baby! Now just let your mom get some sleep! And yes, I am blogging while I could be sleeping for a bit. Dedication is my middle name.
Here is a before picture. All happy on the way to the doctor for her one week visit. Little did we know... She is back to birth weight according to the home health nurses scale, so that is great. Everything else with her is fine, so pray for her levels to be at or below at 10 pronto. Yesterday they were at 19.8!
7 comments:
sweet, sweet baby girl! i am certainly praying for her levels to drop- and quickly. i have to say that i'm glad you're blogging instead of sleeping for a bit so i can know what's going on around there. i hate being too far away to see her in person.
Praying!!!!
Oh bless your hearts! Ethan had to have the "light" too. It did not take long for his levels to drop. I remember it not being a great place to put a new born in because hello...they want to be swaddled up and snuggled. NOT flat on their backs laying on a box! I remember giving formula to help with things as well. You are doing everything you need to be doing. Hang in there!
She is beautiful! Congratulations!
She is such a cutie whether she is in a space ship bed or not! Justin and I will be praying for her though!
oh what a sweetie! I was thinking about having another one pretty pronto, but there is nothing like a reminder of the grueling first few weeks to snap me back to reality. you look AMAZING by the way. I thought you just had a baby!
Oh look at that precious alien!;-)she's still beautiful all 'glowed up'. I know it's been a tough week but hang in there her numbers will eventually go down!!! That first picture of you is just beautiful...are you sure you just birthed that beautiful baby? (And Ryan has strep but you know I'll have it soon:-)!!!)
Oh Melissa! I remember that awful bed! I'm so sorry y'all are having to go through this. Annerson's levels were only in the low teens when she got put on it and she stayed on it for almost 3 days. I know what you mean about the supplementing formula. It wasn't fun for us either. But we had to do it. Poor baby girl.
Praying for you guys. It's so not fun.
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