Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Whitten's First Check-Up

On Monday Shaun and I packed up the kids and took Whitten for his first check-up with Dr. Walley! Whitten was easy and pretty much slept from the time we left our house until the time we got back. He pretty much only woke up when the weighed him and when they pricked his heal. And of course once to eat, which he LOVES to do. 

Whitten had lost a little bit of weight sense we left the hospital on Friday, which of course concerned me but Dr. Walley said that it was not a significant enough loss to warrant any worry. He left the hospital a little bit jaundice with a bilirubin level of 9.4 on Friday. But over the weekend I noticed that he was looking a bit more yellow. So I was not surprised that on Monday morning his levels were up to 14.1.  We have had him baking in the sun light sense yesterday, so he should be back to his normal color soon. We go back for his two week check up next Thursday, and after seeing how difficult it was to go to the doctor with Lillian in tow Shaun said that he would drop Lillian off at school for me and then just go into the office late. I am surprised that after spending a couple days home with us that he hasn't begged to go back to work early!

getting ready to leave the house







it upset Lillian when they had to prick Whitten's heal.


he was pretty worn out from all the activity.

1 comment:

Kelley said...

That last picture is too sweet! It is hard taking two kids at once! Whew!

SO glad W can just do sunlight therapy-- what a blessing-- LA was on her light 96 hours before her levels were good---

And Alli said he's a great eater-- yay!!!!!