Our First Days...

On Thursday afternoon we brought our precious little baby girl Hailey home for the first time. This has to be the best time of our lives! We waited and prayed and begged the Lord for her and here she is...

On Friday we took her to her very first doctor's appointment where after examining her we were told we had a healthy baby, however she looked like she may have some jaundice so we were sent to the lab at St. Francis to have her blood taken. We got the call on Friday night that here biliruben levels were at 17.5, a bit high and they were sending a nurse to our house to hook Hailey up to a blue light bed for the night. Of course this seemed alarming, but we tried to take it in stride. The nurse noticed that in addition to being a little yellow colored, that she was also a bit dehydrated. This made sense because she's been having some trouble figuring out how to nurse.

After the nurse came Saturday morning and checked her blood, we got the call that we were dreading! We were told that her bili levels had raised to 20.2 and that they would need to admit her for light therapy at Mary Bridge. After many tears, we packed ourselves and baby up for a stay at the hospital.

We arrived and were sent to the ER for some evaluation, and after being examined by one of the doctors there they decided to test her bili levels again and evaluate how severe her condition and whether or not she really needed to stay or not...

PRAISE THE LORD!! After the very traumatic experience of holding my baby's head while she got an IV, the blood test came back and her bili level had dropped to 16!!! They gave her some IV fluids for about an hour and sent us home to do light therapy as we were before!

We still are praying that she begins to eat well, and that her bili levels continue to drop...it's VERY hard to have to put your baby on a light bed at all times other than when she eats!! I've waited so long to hold her and now I barely can!! :(

Thank you so much to everyone who has called and wanted to meet our little bundle...we wish she was well enough to meet everybody, but she just hasn't been...if all goes well, she should be able to entertain visitors sometime early next week... :)