Billy Rueben

Okay, its actually spelled Bilirubin, but up until now I had never heard of it, so how was I supposed to know how it was spelled. We checked out of the hospital on Friday and they asked us to bring Ezra to the lab to get some blood work done that Saturday. Later that Saturday we got a call saying that his bilirubin levels were too high, and that he was going to need light therapy. These levels showed that he was jaundice, and he was going to have to stay on the lights and eat a lot to bring the levels down.

The hospital took care of everything, they called the home health people, and they delivered the little light bed and lamp to our house that afternoon. Ezra needed to be undressed to be on the lights, so for that first week of his life he didn't wear any of the cute clothes we had for him. But he has a cute little naked body so I didn't mind too much. He really liked the light bed, he would sleep well on it and was really happy to just lay there.

This lasted for about a week. We took him in every day to get his blood work done. They had to poke his heel and get blood that way. He was so chill he hardly flinched when they took the blood. But as the week went on he started to notice more and more, which was a sign that he was getting better. Before we knew it his levels were great and we didn't need the lights anymore.