thanks guys
so over night Matthew had crazy high breathing rate again... up in the 150 breaths/minute - so the nurses tweaked a couple things and got him back into a normal range. by morning it was apparent that jaundice was starting to set in. for those not yet parents (hey, all this stuff was new to me a couple years ago).....
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Jaundice, a common condition in newborns, refers to the yellow color of the skin and whites of the eyes that happens when there is too much bilirubin in the blood.
Physiological (normal) jaundice: Most newborns have this mild jaundice because their liver is still maturing. It often appears when a baby 2 to 4 days old and disappears by 1 to 2 weeks of age.
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one of the things that helps with the jaundice is the uv in natural sunlight. since it's kinda hard to get him into the sun, the nurses put a uv light over him. but the kicker with that is he then needs to not be wrapped up and as a result, he gets cold - so the only solution is the put him into an incubator - so it looks worse than it is....
^^^those are not the kind of baby pictures any parent wants to be taking!!
they also told us that he has a hole in one of his lungs. it should heal all on its own, but it's just another thing to be on our minds
tomorrow we are expecting the results from the original blood work taken on thursday. this will tell us if he is fighting a bug. if he is, the nurses can adjust his antibiotics accordingly (right now he's on just a general antibiotic in case he has a bug. if they do in fact find a bug, the antibiotic will change to be more specific in fighting off that particular bug)
on the mom front - she's doing as well as can be expected. i know it's really hard on her to see her little baby all wired/tubed up and in an incubator. one thing that she was soooooo looking forward to this time was being able to cuddle with her new born. mom wasn't able to do that with Jordan becuz she was put in a pavlic harness within a day of being born. phyically, she's doing really well with healing from the c-section. she's still really really sore, which it to be expected, but is a lot more mobile at this point than she was after having Jordan.
Jordan came by this evening to visit her little brother again and when she saw Matthew in the incubator she blurted out, "Maffew get out!! Maffew get out!!" heh - made me chuckle!
that's about all that's new right now. i'll give another update tomorrow