Both my beautiful kids suffered jaundice. Its stressful, isn't it?

My daughter was under the lights for 4 days.

When my son was born, I started noticing that he was turning a tad yellow. So asked them to do the blood tests, he too was borderline, but they thought best to put him under (this is public too, btw). His levels continued to rise, and ended up being under the lights for 3 days. The doctors and nurses in the SCN were really interested to hear about my daughters jaundice, from their interest - I assume it isn't really that common, to have both babies with the same problem??? So they started to look into my daughters files, and compared them with my sons, just to see if there was an underlying cause.

Turned out, the reasonings for both of their jaundice wasn't linked, just "one of those things". I can't remember what they said about my daughter, but I know they said my son had a high red blood cell count, which a new born liver struggles to process in the first few days.

Also, for what its worth. I exclusively BF my daughter for 8 months, followed by BF and FF until 12 months. And exclusively BF my son for 14 months.

Good luck with it all, hope you don't have to have that added stress.