Bili Baby

On thursday we took the boys into the dr for their newborn checkup.  Jonathan was down to 5lb4oz and Julian was about 5lb10oz (not for sure on his, Josh didn't really hear).  Jenica ended up staying home from school because she was sick, so we got her an appt too.  She's had a horrid cough for nearly 2 weeks now!  Not good when you have new babies.  Anyways, Julian's bilirubin was in a higher risk category when we left the hospital, and the dr he saw there wanted him to get it checked again on Thursday.  What a pain.  I thought it would be something they could do there at the office, but I had to take him up to AF hospital.  Poor little boy already had a million prick marks on his heels.  So we went home and Josh stayed home with the girls and Jonathan while I ran up there with Julian.  When we got home Josh said the dr's office had already called and his bilirubin had gone up more.  So they had a bilibed delivered to our house.  We were supposed to keep him in it all night and then go get him blood checked again friday morning.  

We put him in the bed around 7pm.  He did alright.  I just sucked because he could only wear his diaper and then he was put in a little sack like thing that was attached to the bed with an opening for his head to be out.  We were only supposed to take him out to feed him or change his diaper.  When we went to bed we put the bed in the bassinet in our room.  This is when all the fun started.

He HATED it!!  He cried and cried and we had to keep giving him his binkie.  I felt sooo bad.  He was so sad!  :(  Finally at 3:30 am none of us had gotten any sleep...so we decided to take him our for a few hours so we could get some rest.  I fed him for about 5 minutes and he was out!!  He slept for 4 1/2 straight hours.  Poor guy was so exhausted.  We put him back in the bed around 8:30 for a little bit and then I took him back to the hospital to get his blood checked.  He went back in the bed when we got home and then a few minutes later the dr called and said his levels had gone down and to stop using the bed.  But I needed to take him back again on Saturday morning to get checked to make sure the bilirubin was still going down on its own.

So yesterday I took him in and the dr called and it was still going down!  YAY!  No more torturing my poor boys heels!!