Growth Chart for My Little Ones

Friday, April 10, 2009

7 Apr 2009 - Jaundice level still high

We brought little prince back to the clinic for a review of his jaundice level this afternoon. I personally felt that the result will not look good because I still see his eye white quite yellowish. Furthermore, it's supposed to peak around this time.

After we registered at the clinic, we went down to the lab to take blood test for our little prince. His blood was taken from the bottom of his feet. Immediately after the nurse "poked" his feet, he cried so loudly.....poor thing.....must be very pain. We then went back up to the clinic and the receptionist told us that the result may take an hour. As such, we decided to go to the business office to do the birth registration.

You must be thinking what is our little prince's name is. I've already revealed his english name, Javier, on this blog title. And his chinese name is 黄正轩. Dun ask me how I thought of this name.....it just came to my mind and Tracy ok'ed to it. Actually, one of the naming books that I've borrowed emphasize on the five elements, and this name was favourable based on that analysis. There are also websites that analyse whether a name is good. One of them is http://sina.sm.aqioo.com/XingMingPingFen.html. Not sure how accurate because whatever name I entered, it seems to be good. Heheh......anyway what is most important is that we like this name.

After the birth registration, we went back to the clinic and hear the result from our PD, Dr Terence Tan. As expected, the result was not good. Jaundice level was at 17.4. Dr Tan said if Javier did not undergo the phototherapy previously, by now the level may be well over 20, the danger zone. So he suggested that we rent the Medela Photolight home and continue with further phototherapy. Next review will be Thursday, 2 days later.

Shortly after we reached home, the Medela Bilibed, Bassinet and Photolight were delivered. Minimum rental is 3 days, which starts tomorrow. Poor Javier gotta spent most of his time on this Bilibed for the next three days. Hopefully his jaundice level will go down, which is of utmost important now.

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