Bit of a palaver last 24 hours. Our son was born with forceps. They said he’s very likely to be jaundiced because of this and that it’ll peak at around day 5. Well yesterday was day 5 we took him to the day 5 midwife appointment. She did the skin test for jaundice and she said based on this reading I advise you to go to A&E. As well he had dropped 15% body weight since birth, apparently 7-10% is ‘normal’.
So we went to A&E and they took bloods. His levels were just below the boundary for phototherapy treatment, however his sodium levels were high, they would have told us to go home if not for the sodium levels. So he’s been admitted, and because of that they might as well do phototherapy as well. Been tough, more expressing and bottle feeding to measure exactly how much he’s taking. He seems to have come on loads though, eating a lot, lots of nappies. And his skin is looking better. They took bloods at 1:30am. Hopefully they’re back by 4, and hopefully they’re good enough that we can go home. If not it’s another 8 hours of phototherapy and bottle feeding until he improves enough to let us home.
Just want my boy and wife to be home and safe. Absolutely shattered but got to crack on. Currently home to pick up some supplies. We only left the house with enough to go to the midwife and back home… that was 9:30am… it’s now 17 hours later….
