Her bilirubin level is down to 13! No more light, no more blood-draws, either! HURRAY & Praise the Lord!
More photos from today’s festivities can be found in two photosets here, and here.
Here are some of our favorites:
Funny.
Ella’s bilirubin level today (blood taken before noon) was aleady down to 14.4! (It was up over 17 yesterday – and was at 15.4 when we left the hospital on Wednesday)
Thank you for joining us in prayer!
Jess is doing remarkably well. We are without a doubt OVERWHELMINGLY blessed to have the support of both sets of parents. Mom Garrett has been here since Thursday morning and has been an overwhelming support. Tonight she and I will take “shifts” at bringing “hungry Ella” to Momma – after last night, where she allowed me to be sleep while SHE took care of Ella and Jess! Now that I’m a bit “caught up”, I can’t wait for my “new job”! (I will still be suplementing my sleep with a bit of Tylenol PM)
Tonight we finally took the time to give Ella her first “real” bath! Sure we can’t yet sit her in the sink and use the sprayer and such, but we put her on the towel next to the sink and I used my fatherhood skills (and the knowledge from watching the hospital video on bathing your child) and washed our baby Ella for the first time! It was awesome –
almost done!
drying off
Finishing touch – a kiss from Mommy and Daddy
More photos of tonight’s bath and some visitors, too, are available here.
Tonight, Ella also enjoyed her first-ever game of “thumb wrestling” with her Grandpa Sheets. Enjoy these two videos –
I’m lovin’ this!
She loved it for about 3-minutes before violently kicking and screaming.
We’ll try it again tomorrow.
I took some more pictures this afternoon and evening (no kidding?!).
Here are some of my favorites, but the rest can be found here.
Miss “Squishy Cheeks”
My daughter is NOT affected by Kryptonite! (actually this is a “phototherapy device” placed on Ella’s back to help rid the bilirubin causing the jaundice-yellow many of you have probably been wondering about…)
Flowers from Ella’s Grandpa and Grandma Sheets (my parents) to welcome Ella and to bring cheer to Jess and the whole house!
We are continuing to get Ella’s blood drawn daily to watch the bilirubin count. Please join us in praying for it to be significantly lower tomorrow!
After a few phone calls this afternoon, we were asked by Sherrie, KCH’s “lactation consultant” to come in for some more hands-on breastfeeding tips. Boy are we glad that we went to that meeting. Ella ate for more than 40-minutes straight while we were there and has been sleeping now for over 30-minutes! Jess got the “training” she needed and Mom Garrett and I learned a lot about how we could/should help Jess during this time!
