Glow Worm

Dylan and I (Janet) ended up back in the hospital overnight this week. 
She was a bit jaundice when we left the hospital last week, but not too bad. However, it got worse throughout her first week and by Monday, when she was a week old, we were concerned, so I went to the hospital to have her checked.  Sure enough, her bilirubin level (from red blood cells) was way too high and the doctors wanted us to be admitted to the hospital right away to get the count down quickly (rather than the slower process of taking a bili blanket home and doing phototherapy off and on at home). 
She was under the fiber-optic bili lights for 24 hours and her bilirubin count went down low enough for us to go home the next day.  (Thank goodness, because she hated it...and neither of us slept much at all!)

This was hopefully the only time we have to ever see a NICU again...she was just having her blood drawn here.



It did make a pretty big difference, just in that 24 hours.