First night was okay. Feeding him is a challenge for me. His still very sleepy when I fed him. I tried every possible way the lactation people taught me in the hospital but at times I can't fed him enough. So during the middle of the night, he will wake up and his cry is very loud. I would also assume that due to his circumcision every time he peed or poo, it irritates his tiny little thing down there. So hard to him his cry but you can't do nothing to soothe it and just hope he would stop crying. But once his cleaned and give him reassurance, his a fine baby.
The second night was tough. Middle of the night, he was awake every hour. I tried to fed him whatever I can but the little one was always awake. I didn't get much sleep. I was also in pain due to my stitches and hemorrhoid problem so dealing with trying to heal myself with a crying baby is a little overwhelming.
At 11am we have an appointment in Mountain View for his follow up. Hubby checked his body temp. It was a little colder and so he did skin to skin with him. His temperature became stable then. We got to the facility a little late and the lobby was freaking cold. We waited until our name was called. Then came the nurse and we went to the exam room. We got his temperature it went down to 95.5. It's very alarming. The doctor came in and see if we can regulate his body temp with a warm blanket, nothing happened. His cold. The doctor ordered to go to NICU at the hospital. She also saw the yellowing of Yanis skin probably due to Jaundice. So there we head straight to the hospital in emergency. Quite a panic to have our baby in that situation.
We got to the hospital and greeted by the supervisor in charge for the day. They then take care of him, put all necessary measuring devices and swaddle him with warm blankets. It's very difficult to see him that way to be there in that corner with all those wires. He was then put in an isolette to monitor his body temp and regulating it. Poor little baby.
He was in the isolette for 3 days and had 2 days light therapy for his Jaundice. I breast feed him as possible as I can get and bottle fed him too. I haven't sleep so good while I was there. I didn't care much about my recovery because the number one goal was to keep baby stable. I though honestly had a mental and physical breakdown the night of Sunday where the emergency took place. Due to the situation with no idea how the day goes, I didn't bring any of my medication for my pain. I suffered all day while walking the hallway of the NICU. It was so painful I almost fainted but tried to be strong for the sake of the baby. But past 9pm I mentally got to my limit and cried so hard. It was devastating for me to be in the situation where the pain is unbearable and here I have a baby who needs extra care.
There's a happy ending to every bad things. His jaundice went down and his temp is regular with the help of the isolette and later on he managed to be out on the crib. We were discharge friday morning and went home safe.
We did have a follow up yesterday to see a pediatrician. His temperature is good. His weight now is 4.69 which is still below his birth weight. The doctor recommend Neosure 22 so he could have more calories and that he can gain weight. Feeding time change to every 2 hours. Breast every 10 minutes each and 10 for bottle feed. We can't make it to 2 hours so we adjusted it to 2.5. It seemed worked fine with me and the baby. He poo and peed every time therefore his doing good. We will see the pedia again next week on Friday and see how far along he can gain weight.
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