Savannah Lilly Conklin has only been around for four days, but she's had enough needle sticks and pokes to make a pin cushion jealous. Poor little girl. But she's been a champion for baby battlers of bilirubin the world over.
Well, it was pretty much a given that AnnahLilly would get jaundice with her way-above-average red blood cell count. Fortunately it hasn't been so high that she needs to be put into a suitcase. Her treatment thus far has been around-the-clock use of a biliblanket. She's been using it for as long as we've been home: the past two days. This Tampa Bay-area health care company brought it to our house shortly after our arrival Friday afternoon, and went over everything with us; dude was extremely nice.
What has it been like for AnnahLilly at home?
1. Eat
2. Sleep atop biliblanket
3. Go potty
4. Repeat steps 1-3
So, what's next?
Little girl's latest heel stick blood numbers, taken Saturday morning, came back a little lower than the previous day, so that was good news. She scored a 14 on the bilirubin graph, which for her hour age -- she was approximately 80 hours at the time of the test -- is in the high intermediate risk zone. So, her on-call doctor ordered one more day of biliblanket, plus another heel stick Sunday morning. We're crossing our fingers that another day of Mr. Biliblanket will prove beneficial.
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