Sleeping Again???

This is a common sight with our newborn Baby Spencer. He sleeps, wakes to eat and have an occasional diaper change and then goes back for some more sleep. Not a bad lifestyle if you can get it I guess! You can't really tell from pictures, but Spencer has a little bit of a yellow glow to him as he came home from the hospital with a touch of jaundice. Spencer's pediatrician that discharged him from the hospital said that even though he scored "above average" on the test they ran on him, she still wanted to see him at her office the following day. At that appointment one of the other pediatricians agreed that he was still pretty yellow in his face and torso. She said to continue feeding him as much as he would take as that would help it run its course. We followed those directions and saw the doctor again yesterday. Unfortunately, she said that he was showing signs of the yellow coloring spreading to his legs as well. So, off to the hospital we went for a bilirubin test. This amounts to some blood being drawn from his heal. Spencer was a brave little trooper and handled the experience very well! Mommy and Daddy then waited for the doctor to call us back with his test results. When the phone did ring, it was the hospital lab saying there was a problem with his blood sample and we needed to come back to have the blood test redone. By the end of the afternoon, pincushion boy had matching band aids on BOTH heals! After discussing the results with the doctor, she feels we may have corrected the problem so we will go back to the hospital tomorrow morning to have ONE more blood test taken. Hopefully this will confirm that his score is going back down into the normal range where we want to see it at. Details on that when we have them!