BekZ

Gee I can't believe they let her go home only for overnight in the end.. poor mum it must be very hard.

I hope she can just have some more time to get things happening

We didn't have a weight gain until day 23, which was 12 days after leaving hospital, infact on the day if disharge she lost 40grams and was 10 grams above her lowest weight but her Paed was happy for her to go home (on a Friday). The following Wednesday we had her weighed and she had lost another 10grams, so was back to her lowest weight. We were lucky that the RN wasn't too worried (albeit I was shattered) and we went back the next week and got a decent gain!

DD also had jaundice, was under lights for a couple of days. It also got worse when we were home but we hadn't realised how bad (as she was really yellow and we didn't know any different and our private MW/LC wasn't concerned until it had returned to her torso) at 10 weeks, we had her Bilirubins done and they were the same level as they were when she had just finished her phototherapy, so we were lucky we didn't have to go back in, but it also meant that she wa probably above that for quite some time and had just gradually come down by themselves.

DD's Paediatrician said that in breast fed infants, the same thing that breaks down the breast milk also resolves jaundice, he referred to it as breastfed jaundice. So it is common for Breast fed babies to be jaundiced for 3 months or more (especially premmies).

I hope that with a bit of phototherapy and adjustments with her feeds that they can return home and stay there. xxoo