We had an extremely cautious paed as well. We had no jaundice problems, but spent a total of 10 days in hospital. It took that long for Sam not to get too tired sucking on bottles and to get to full suck feeds. That's basically when they will discharge - when the baby is able to go 24 hours on full suck feeds with no issues at all. It may take a little longer to do this on the breast, but as others have said, if the baby is a good size for their gestation there will often be no issues at all. Sam was a wee little tacker at only 2.48kg (I believe that's five and a half pounds in the old language!). He's certainly not a tiny thing any more and is a whopping 10kg at 9 months old.

BW