Three Weeks!

Kate is three weeks old today! Can you believe it? We have been pretty busy trying to adjust to life with our new little one and without sleep so it's taken me a while to get to posting more picture and updates, but here goes an attempt to catch up.


Last week we had her two week check up. Wait, back up... About an hour before we left the hospital the pediatrician came in and informed us that Kate had a mild case of Jaundice and that we would need to arrange for her to have light therapy for a few days to remedy it. He was calm and said not to worry, nothing to be alarmed about, easy to correct, no big deal. Then, one of our not so helpful nurses came in and was less calm and decided to tell us her levels were very high and that we needed to make sure we set up therapy ASAP and to contact our pediatrician ASAP! Why is it that when you know that one individual is more qualified and more educated, (not judging, just going off of degrees), that the one who is more of an alarmist is the one you always seem to pay more attention to? Anyway, we left the hospital and arranged the lights with the home health and after three days of lights, daily trips to the hospital to get blood drawn, and a careful journal of feeding and diapers, Kate's levels returned to normal. Needless to say, as a new mom, it was not very fun to bring home my brand new baby only to have to lay her on a mini tanning bed for three hour stints not able to remove her except for feeding and diaper changes! She was a trooper and we survived just fine. Of course we had to have some pictures to remember the ordeal. Anyway, here are her stats from her two week check up-


Age- 2 Weeks
Date- June 12, 2009
Length- 19 3/4 inches (a 1/4 of an inch growth or they just got her to stretch out more)
Weight- 7 pounds 4 ounces (a great improvement from the 5 pounds 3 ounces she was at the first day home from the hospital and the 6 pounds 8 ounces she was at birth!)

She was in the 25th percentile for everything. Now we just need to figure out how to keep her from spitting up and getting the hiccups EVERY time she eats! No worries though, she's growing so it can't be that bad right? RIGHT?!