Seth's first week

So Seth had a roughish first week.  There have been worse, but it wasn't without incident.  His bilirubin was rising each day, but it wasn't high enough for them to order a bili-bed or bili-blanket yet.  Just go in everyday and get more blood tests done.  Because of his bilirubin, he had to have extra feedings to try to kick his liver into working faster... which means more bottles, which is hard when you're trying to teach him to latch and nurse when you don't have an overabundance of milk in the first place.  Which means pumping for me to try to keep my milk supply up.  We also figured out that he has acid reflux.  Thank you Becca for having told me all about it with Rocky... I was able to figure it out and get him some medicine.  Luckily, by the end of the week his bili tests were going down instead of up.  Unfortunately, he and I caught colds and I got double mastitis.... lovely.

 

Seth and his mini-Seth.  They have the same toes, hair color, and hair line...