Monday, April 23, 2007

Sunbathing

We took advantage of some bright sun today. I snapped this sweet photo of Karen as she watched over Kylie in her sun tent.

Yesterday was the third day that we've treated Kylie for her jaundice. Her treatment has consisted of feeding her every two hours and keeping a wallaby phototherapy strip wrapped around her naked belly. Her bilirubin test was down two points on Saturday so we didn't have to go to the hospital for another blood draw on Sunday. We see our pediatrician for a follow-up appointment today. It would be wonderful if she thought Kylie was healthy enough to stop the Wallaby treatment but I'm not holding my breath.

I would love to start dressing little Kylie instead of keeping her naked all the time and wrapping blankets around her. She loves to be swaddled and that has been a challenge with the wallaby strip. It would also be nice to be able to move around the house more freely instead of being confined to the room where the wallaby machine is plugged in. But of course we will do whatever we need to do to improve her jaundice.

Kylie was so happy lying in the sun. Karen and I had a lovely time passing the camera back and forth taking pictures of our lovely little girl. You can find more pictures
here.



-Wendy

10 comments:

Stacey said...

oh wow, you can definitely see an improvement with the jaundice! great job, moms! she is adorable. sunbathing photos are the best! sorry about the wallaby but i'm sure you'll be done with it soon enough and we'll get to see kylie all dressed up in some cute outfits! :)

Holly said...

The pictures are wonderful!
She's beautiful! She looks great!
It's funny when we go back and look at pictures of Andrew when he was a few days old. He was really yellow!

Momai said...

Belated congeats from TN! She's beautiful!

Anonymous said...

She is beautiful. Congrats AGAIN!

SJayneI said...

Awe.......how sweet is she? Hopefully her jaundice will be a thing of the past and you will soon be proudly showing off all of her adorable little outfits.

Congrats again on your beautiful little girl!

Anonymous said...

she is soooooooo gorgeous!!

Kim aka Mommy said...

Gorgeous lil girl! Thanks for sharing! Can't wait to see more.

Lynanne said...

Beautiful photos of a beautiful little girl!

Dee said...

She is so beautiful! Congrats!!!!

Ethan Barry's Momma said...

She gets more beautiful and pinker by the day. :) All of your hard work is definitely helping her jaundice.
Big hugs!