Well Miss Aubrey is 5 days old, where has the time gone? Haha, I know it will fly by though even though I kid. Anyway we went to the pediatrician on Tuesday and Aubrey weighs 7 lbs. 3 oz. now so she's lost 10 but that's normal. We were concerned with how much more jaundice she got since we had left the hospital and the doctor agreed and wanted us to go get some blood drawn. We went to the Cookeville Hospital (where Kyle will be doing some rotations) and got her blood drawn. Kyle had a hard time watching his little girl get stuck, but she did great and didn't cry too much. Her results did come back much higher than in the hospital so they said we needed to get a billy blanket (uv light blanket) and put her on it for the night.Kyle first tried laying out in the sun with her trying to get her jaundice to go down.
Well then the nightmare begins, the doctor's office tried to get a billy blanket for about an hour and then the office closed and they said they couldn't find one so just keep her in the sun (even though the sun would only be out for a few more hours). Well Kyle and my mom started the calls and tried calling about 20 different home healthcare places trying to find a billy blanket. I guess there were a lot of jaundicy babies this week because Cookeville was completely out, the whole area....crazy! I even called where we delivered to try to catch our OB and see if he had any suggestions. When I called the OB floor the nurse said he was in a delivery and I got all excited because it was our friend Alarie. Who which by the way, had an adorable little boy. Aidan Michael, 9 lbs. 0 oz, 22 in long, born at 6:33 pm, and dad got to deliver him too. So FINALLY we found a billy blanket and Kyle drove to Crossville (about 30 minutes away) to get it. By this time it was about 8-9 o'clock at night and we were so thankful to finally find one. So here is our super baby she looks like a little glow worm when we wrap her up.
So glad that we FINALLY found a billy blanket, three hours later.
We're going back to the hospital tomorrow and we're hoping her jaundice level went down enough to take her off the blanket. She's been a little naked baby since she can't wear clothes while on the blanket and it's been a pain to always have her plugged into the wall (the blanket has a huge battery and cord). She's still as happy or I guess as sleepy as can be.
2 comments:
That last picture is adorable! Do they not do that light box these days? That blanket is so high tech!
oh I can't wait to meet her!!! I'm hoping to come Sunday early afternoon/late morning if that still works for you. We got to capture her while she is teeny tiny! Can't wait to see you too honey!
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