Week by Week

First Week  ..............................................................................
Sydney left the hospital on Day 2 weighing 6 lbs 4 oz which put her right at 10% weight loss; anymore and she would have had to stay at the hospital, instead they had us make an appointment with her pediatrician the following day.

At the pediatric office, Day 3, she weighed in at 6 lbs 10 oz. Which was great! The formula that they had encouraged us to supplement with some had worked. Unfortunately, her skin and eyes had the dreaded yellow tint to them meaning her jaundice levels had gone up. We were then asked to go to the local Madison Memorial Hospital and get her bilirubin level checked. (She had left the hospital at around a 7 which was okay.) Later that day after the hospital blood test we got the results from her doctor saying that they were now a 10 and she needed to go back to the hospital tomorrow just for another bilirubin prick, to make sure they were going down and not up. So Day 4 Shea took her right when he woke to get the prick and that afternoon the results stated that she had now gone up to a 12. So for the next couple days she continued having to go get the bilirubin check, Day 5 it was a 13 (and we started to worry what the next step of getting rid of her jaundice would be, other than just flushing it out with her feedings). Fortunately, Day 6, her levels had finally gone down, they were back to 12, barely! Either way the doctor was satisfied and wasn't worried and our poor Sydney's heels were finally free, the next day would be the first day she wasn't pricked for a blood test since she had been born!

Nursing had its ups and downs during week one. My milk came in on Day 4, I got engorged and it made it hard for her to eat and she was choosing the bottle all the time, it was very frustrating for me. But HALLELUJAH within a couple days we got a schedule down and she was back to nursing great, and taking a 2 oz bottle once a day.

Second Week ..........................................................................

Right after her first week Sydney's umbilical cord fell off (around the 10 day mark), and after a few days of drainage and cleaning we are enjoying her cute little belly button. What a big girl!

She had her first bath between week one and two.

Sydney had her second Doctors visit, her Two Week Check up!
She weighed in at 6 lbs 13 oz (almost her birth weight). Even though she hadn't gained quite as much as the doctors like to see, her doctor wasn't worried since she was so close and she was eating and having regular wet/dirty diapers.

Third Week ...........................................................................
And now she is getting so big. And even more beautiful.

First Photo Session.