While still in the hospital they discovered that Samuel's bilirubin was going up. A normal thing in most babies to a certain degree, but something they watch. On Saturday night they ordered that he be put under the bili lights (a special blanket) for babies that are jaundiced. We thought he might have to stay in the hospital another day but on Sunday morning the pediatrician said he could home and use the lights at home. It means that he was hooked up to a machine that was connected to a light wrapped around him. It was a bit of a pain to carry the machine and tubing around with us when we wanted to lay him down, change him, or feed him but we were glad to be able to go home together! He stayed under the lights till Tues evening when his levels improved. This is a picture of the hospital bili bed which was more confining than the one we used at home. It also shows a rare look at his eyes open!
Samuel's take home outfit-- picked by mommy. Because we didn't know what we were having, I picked the boy outfit and David picked the girl outfit (opposite of how we did it with Amelia). Poor David never gets to use his outfit!! Maybe next time??!! :) He does pick cute outfits
Mommy and Daddy are happy to be going home!
Samuel taking a nap in his crib
Showing off the bear Daddy got him- you can kinda tell he's still hooked up to the light, thus the gap in the sleeper where the tubing comes out.
2 comments:
Congratulations again! Samuel is so adorable and we can't wait to meet him in person!
Congrats on the new baby, he's cute! Michael sent me the link :). We're waiting until I'm done with school, which will be in May!!!
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