After an incredibly stressful night and morning, Evelyn’s blood tests came back. Her bilirubin is still on the rise, but they’re happy to continue to let us have her at home for a few more days, provided that we take her into hospital immediately if we have any concerns.
She’s still feeding well and has gained 20g overnight (probably the sole reason we were allowed to take her home again).
They are completely baffled as to why her bilirubin keeps rising when she’s feeding so well and gaining weight – especially when she’s had three sessions of phototherapy now. Consider me baffled as well, but I’m not going to think about it until I have to.
In the meantime, this is me celebrating the fact that I don’t have to take Evelyn back to hospital until Friday. Maybe her poor abused heels will have time to heal now. She’s covered in stick marks, poor baby.
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11 responses to “Hospital: Narrowly avoided”
Yay for avoiding hospital 🙂 Hope all continues to go in the right direction for Miss Evelyn. xx
Excellent! Thinking of you all Veronica. Hope it continues to be good news from here.
that is great news!
Yah yah yah!
Yay, fingers crossed things start improving.
Hopefully it’ll start going down soon with no more problems.
Yay for Evelyn for feeding so well! Hope the bilirubin goes down quickly and you’re home for good!
Hooray for awesome news 😀
I hope Evelyn’s levels keep falling. Can you put her near a sunny window as often as possible? Are you getting sunny days down in Tassie? Can you buy or rent a UV lamp from the hospital or a chemist?
Not sure if I should say YAY or oh man. Because when will it end and how do you know? It doesn’t sound like they are giving you a good overview of how things are going to stabilize. :/
Hi Veronica, I pray that her blood test results get better by the day and that she continues to feed well. Blessings to you both. Big cuddles to beautiful Evelyn. I love her name by the way. xxJess