Last night I went to bed earlier than usual. I was soooo tired. I’ve been feeding her every 3 hours max and waking her up if she doesn’t wake on her own, even through the night. I set the alarm on my phone to wake me up. I was so tired that I didn’t even hear it go off. The first time Travis woke me up. She had been asleep for 5 hours! The 2nd time, I woke up and she had been asleep for 4 hours.
Travis was feeling a bit better and went to school. He came home a little while later… apparently his coughing fits were disrupting class so he was sent home. After I got home from taking Jayden for her daily needle poke I could barely haul my behind off the couch. All I wanted to do was sleep.
The nurse called around 5pm and said the bili levels were still higher than they would have hoped for. Still 15 something. They wanted her back on the biliblanket, thinking I still had it. When I told them we had taken it back they said we’d ride out the weekend, doing what we have been and test again on Tuesday. I’m so glad they weren’t going to make the nurse come back out and hook her up again. I really hope that her levels are down around at least a 13 when Tuesday comes. She continues to look better with each day.
Then Jayden started an all evening nurse-a-thon. My sleepy baby had turned wide awake and ready to eat pretty much from 1pm to 11pm. I would nurse her and she would seem sound asleep until I lay her down to try and get something to eat myself and she would cry about 2 minutes later. I’m not sure if she is hitting a growth spurt or if she is just nursing for comfort because she’s feeling lousy.
I gave up at 11 and asked Travis to take over. Trav gave her the rest of a bottle and came into the kitchen as I was heating up my dinner. I was crying. I was hungry yet sick to my stomach, oh so tired and way stressed out. He gave me hugs. I ate and went to bed. I was afraid it would continue through the night and into the next day.
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