Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Our Poor Baby

For those of you that don't know, our little David has jaundice. :( His levels started out pretty low, but when he had trouble eating this weekend, they jumped. We got the unfortunate news yesterday that his levels were high enough to require light treatment. So Praxair showed up last night and set up a baby-sized tanning bed in our crib. The doctor said for him to be in the bed at all times unless he's feeding. It was pretty heartbreaking last night to not be able to hold our little boy. We went back to the doctor today to find that his levels have dropped back down, but they want us to keep him under the lights for another night, just to be safe. Bummer. Hopefully just one more day and he'll be clear. In the meantime, we'll just hold the hand of our "Joe Cool" baby boy.

4 comments:

Chad and Kristen said...

Good to hear, not much more time under those lights... looks like he is taking after "uncle Chad"

The A.Wahls said...

Let the adventures of parenthood begin! So sorry you hit a rough patch but I'm glad he's improving. Hang in there!

Anonymous said...

I'm glad to hear he's out of the lights now and you can hold him 24/7 again. What a beautiful boy you have! Tell him I'm coming to visit him again next week!

Anonymous said...

I'm glad to hear he's out of the lights now and you can hold him 24/7 again. What a beautiful boy you have! Tell him I'm coming to visit him again next week!