hospital day 2

Oops - these first 3 photos are from day 1 during the birthday party. I forgot to include them. Terry is taking a photo on his cell phone to send to facebook and his parent's email.

Gramma is helping Evie to hold Samuel for the first time. She was pretty excited to do so.

She looks a little unsure here, but Evie was and is pretty excited and pleased with her baby brother.

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Day 2

Samuel had his circumcision done this day and he was not happy about it. In fact, he was very fussy all day and his mommy was super stressed out, not to mention emotional and hormonal. I was wondering what kind of baby he was going to be! Thankfully, he did much better the following days.

This isn't the best proof photo, but Samuel developed a rash called Erythema Toxicum that was especially evident on his eyelids this day. Erythema toxicum is a common, noncancerous skin condition seen in newborns with the main symptom of a rash of small, yellow-to-white colored papules surrounded by red skin. It looked like he had little pimples all over his face and chest. On Day 2, Samuel's eyelids were affected. Perhaps due to the crying from the circ.? Anyway, not the best day for a photo op...

Samuel's biliruben level began to spike already on day 2 (9.3), which really wasn't such a surprise since Noah and Evie did the exact same thing...for weeks. And weeks. Ug. Bili-blanket here we come. It's our way apparently - lots of dark hair and jaundiced skin.

-----Nurse Eva time. Jaundice is caused by excess biliruben in the babies blood which turns the skin and eyes yellow. Biliruben is the bi-product of broken down red blood cells (newborns have more of these) that can't be excreted do to an immature liver or something to do with breastfeeding. Since all of our kids have done this, I think it's something to do with my milk, but it's harmless unless the biliruben level gets above 20 or 25. -----

So Dave started him on a bili-bed. I had never seen this before but it was pretty neat, except that I couldn't hold Samuel. And as I said before, he was fussy! It was a long day. My arm got sore from holding the pacifier in his mouth. Poor little guy.

We had many visitors - another benefit of being in town. I snapped a shot of just one group though - Terry's aunt JoAnn and cousin Tawnya. They came while the bili-bed was being set up. They left b/c of the crying that ensued!

A woman came taking pictures for the paper. Terry took this photo, which was actually better than what they got. We sent this shot in and it was published the following week. Their photo will go in for March.