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Jaundice

GreenEyes said: "My son had jaundice. I did have to go in and get his blood tested but by the second week he was fine. I will say a blessing for your little one and hope for a speedy recovery. Try not to worry about it, just enjoy this special time in his life."

DBrew said: "Like all the veteran moms have said, he will probably be fine in no time. My youngest son was born in July and I just kept taking him outside every day but you can't do that so the light should work fine."

naynay said: "Well Masons levels got checked this morning and it went up more so a medical place came out and he has to have a phototherapy light, also called a bili blanket, on his back and have it on at all times until thursday. The nurse said dont worry it happens a lot and he will prob be fine. I am not worried about it now but if the levels havent gone down by thursday then i will worrie."

lakelady said: "Naynay, don't worry, LOTS and LOTS of newborns are jaundiced. that bili (bili stands for biliruben) blanket breaks the biliruben in mason's bloodstream to a nice water-soluble easily excreted form. he'll grow out of it in no time. In the old days they used to just put the jaundiced babies by a sunny window, until they figured out which wavelength of light it was that affected the biliruben. Kirsty and lillieannen BOTH had phototherapy, although back then it was done for a couple of days in the hospital."