Fun with jaundice

I just have a quick second to update while the baby sleeps...in her swing (a rarity)...before the next feeding.  Yes, she's pretty jaundiced, but we think we've passed the peak of the bilirubin accumulation curve - and we've avoided more hospital time so far.  However, "treatment" requires that I be absolutely perfect about getting her on the breast every two hours, sometimes for an hour each time, to try to flush the excess bilirubin from her system.  This hour on, hour off routine (24 hours a day) has left me tired after three days.  But she's doing better!

I promise I won't post a bunch of photos of my boobs all the time on this blog, but here's what we did today.  In addition to massive quantities of breastfeeding, another treatment for neonatal jaundice is phototherapy, which they do with big, impressive lights in the hospital.  You can also do it with sunlight though, so we gave it the good ol' college try today since it's Christmas and nothing is fucking open, even doctors.  If we do decide to get another blood draw tomorrow, the one and only place we can get it done is the ER (not even the children's hospital, but the regular adult ER).  Anyway - this is cute :)


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