This has been quite the week. Little Ethan has struggled a bit with jaundice, weight loss, and feeding. However, I think we are finally all doing better. We had a great report at the doctors today and we finally have him eating (we had to resort to the bottle after many sleepless nights with failed efforts of breast feeding, finger feeding, tube feeding, feeding with a cup, etc.).
When the visiting nurse came we found out that Ethan had lost over a pound - which they were very concerned about. We almost had to go to the ER, but instead she had us immedietly go to the doctors and we found out that his jaundice was very high. We had to put him on the light for 24 hours and that helped. The doctor was concerned about his eating - since we discovered he was getting very little. Now that we changed to the bottle, he has gained back 6 ounces. He is also a much happier baby (we had about 24 hours with a very frantic little guy).
Overall it is has been a good week. We have had some visitors and we are very lucky to have great friends providing meals for us for 10 whole days! We have been sooo spoiled. It has been a tremendous help though.
I'm so glad to see that Ethan's doing good! He sure is a cutie!
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