Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Our last few days...............

Our last few days have been a bit crazy as is to be expected. With Reagan off to the gym with Daddy and Abby sleeping in her tanning bed I thought I would steal a minute to update.

First on a light note. Reagan is a girly girl and loves her bubble baths! Abby on the other hand did not enjoy her first bath so much.











Reagan loves to sit next too, sing too, kiss, etc. her little sister. She unfortunately has had a couple of days with a fever in which she was not allowed to get too close but thankfully we are over that.











Monday was Abby's first visit to the doctor. The news was not so wonderful. She had a pretty high level of jaundice and was down to 6lbs 1oz. Next came a home delivery of what we have called several names including baby tanning bed and baby torture device. Needless to say she doesn't like it very much. We were told to leave her on it as much as possible and just to take her off to feed her. She would not stop screaming so we made the decision to take her off for the night and start back up in the morning. Today we went back to the doctor and have both good and bad news. Her jaundice level went down 2 points which is fantastic but her weight also went down to 5lbs 15oz. She has officially lost 1lb and 13-14% of her body weight. That means we'll be back again tomorrow to the doctors office and we already know we'll be back there again on Thursday checking on those levels and her weight. Luckily if her levels are down again tomorrow I believe we can lose the machine!

3 comments:

Court said...

Oh Cindy ~ I'm sorry that you guys are having to deal with this and that poor little Abigail is going through such trauma so early! Praying that the jaundice levels go down and that her weight goes up! Is she eating well? Hope you get a good report tomorrow!

Jessica Davis said...

they are just gorgeous... I'm sorry she's losing weight though. Hang in there.
Thinking of you guys!
hugs!

Halfpint said...

I hope she feels better soon. Let me know if you guys need anything.