March 16, 2005

  • Well, dang.  Alex just called, and it turns out Hannah is jaundiced, so she'll need to stay over another night. 

    What's up with all the jaundice these days?  Maybe I was simply
    unaware as none of my babies ever had it, but it seems as if it's far
    more prevalent than it used to be.  Kirstin's bro-and-sis-in-law
    just had a baby boy earlier this month, and he
    has developed jaundice too.  Alex said someone else he knows
    recently had a baby that was jaundiced.  Is it my imagination, or
    is this ailment more common than it once was?

    And they had a rough night last night, with Hannah crying and
    crying.  Finally about 3 in the morning Alex called the nurse to
    have baby taken to the nursery (the nursing staff had offered
    regularly, but Alex and Beth were determined to care for her
    themselves) so he and Beth could get some sleep themselves;  he discovered her ankle ID band had fallen off
    (she's lost weight) and he ran after the nurse to give it to her. 
    He says he caught up with them about 100' feet down the hall.

    Hannah was sound asleep. 

    I pointed out to him this morning it was doubtless the rolling motion
    of the bassinet being trundled down the hall that put her out, and it
    shouldn't be taken as Editorial Comment on Hannah's part.  Very
    likely she'll be one of those babies who can be quieted by a ride in the car. 

    New parents!  Bless their hearts.

    They haven't got a clue. 

Comments (3)

  • All of my kids had a bit of jaundice, maybe cause they are born almost a month early??? None bad enough to go to the hospital, the oldest we didnt have sunlight though (it was a dreary december, icy and rainy and cold) & we had a special blanket we had to wrap around him at home. The other two we just used sunlight, theirs didn't get as bad. I think that is partialy because they didn't have the early breastfeeding troubles like my oldest.

    That is silly about the baby being asleep by the time he got to her. I guess they should have tried rolling her around the halls a bit :)

  • Out of all of the babies born into my family in my memory (at least 30) only 2 were jaundiced. One was Terri, which was back in the day when mom and baby stayed in the hospital for 5 days. Her jaundice was slight and was over by the time she came home.

    Ethan was very jaundiced. Robin noticed it a day or so after he came home and he instantly became one of those "glow worm" babies. He was so fat and so goofy in that light tube! :) He really did look like a glow worm. No neck at all, and just his head peeping out of the end of that tube.

    :)

    I don't think jaundice is any more common - it's just that they mentioned it all the time now. Terri's jaundice didn't even require treatment. Maybe cases like hers weren't even always mentioned in those days before doctors started feeling like they have to document every sneeze.

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  • My sister's son had to stay in the hospital a few days because of jaundice. Of my 4 only Katherine had jaundice and it quickly passed. I also think that it's just mentioned more now.

    That's funny about Hannah falling asleep in the basinette, they'll learn!!

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