Nearly home

Well, the levels *were* down and Janel and Nicole were reunited – although baby needed to stay in her incubator and under lights as often as possible. She needs three blood tests in a row below the treatment level, and then the phototherapy can stop, and then a further test several hours after that to make sure that it has stayed below and she can be discharged. Her second clear test was this morning, and they took the blood for the third at supper time, but the results weren’t in when I came home for the evening. Hopefully that will be clear and Nicole can sleep in the dark tonight  and then the final test will be tomorrow morning – all of which means that we could have our baby girl at home with us by tomorrow night!!!

This incubator is “climate controled” and Janel seems to be getting used to being in it, so doesn’t make too much of a fuss – although she has a habit of pushing her mask up off her eyes. She also tends to kick off her hospital tags, which is why she has one on her wrist *and* her ankle, and there is also a third one just out of shot at the end of the bed!! She is feeding well, and has put on some more weight, so all the signs are positive. We measured her this evening, and she’s about 51cm long (almost 20 inches), looks like she’s going to be a tall elegant lady like her mother!!

It will be very cool to finally get her home, although I must say that the thought is also rather scary – a hospital is a safe place to look after a baby, you know that there are experienced professionals just around the corner to call upon if you run into difficulties; at home it is that little bit harder to find help when you need it…

Until the next time.

Graeme