So lucky us Rowynne had jaundice when she was born. When we left the hospital her levels where at a 10 which is above average but nothing to worry about yet. We were told upon leaving the hospital that we would have to get her levels checked the next day to see if she was rising or leveling off.
We went to American Fork hospital the next day and the lab was supposed to call us with her levels. Since if they were high we had been told to go to the doctor. However American Fork Hospital dropped the ball and never called, we called the next day to figure out what had happened and well her levels had jumped to a very high 17.3. If these numbers don't mean anything to you, anything above a 20 and the baby would need to be hospitalized, jaundice unchecked can do damage to the brain. So we had a scary weekend and ended up in the ER because she was so high, they tested her again and she was still a 17.3, so we left the ER with lights to help with her jaundice.
This was Rowynnes light set. We called it her tail because it was dangling out of everything that she wore. And she had to wear it 24/7, as often as possible.
This is Rowynne wearing the light. It had the piece of paper that slipped onto the light which then wrapped around her body so that it would stay put.
Wearing her light.... with her tail! It was super annoying trying to carry her with that things dragging along. But from what people have told me, Jaundice lights could have been much worse. At least she wasn't in a suitcase.... like Regan was when he was born and had jaundice.
She looked like a hunch back with the light in her shirt. Sometimes it would ride up when she was sleeping.
Our little one was soon off the light and her levels back to normal. We are very glad that she is better now, it was a little bit of a scare and super stressful dealing with it all.
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