What do you know about jaundice?

You had your baby! Congrats! Is your pelvic pain any better?

Anyway, my son had jaundice. My experience is that a)I was pressured to supplement and did and that had dire effects on breastfeeding and b) after we brought him home we needed to take him back for bilirubin light treatments and leave him overnight. So, all in all, not a very good experience. Probably the single most stressful thing about my delivery. However, he was pre term, and I think that affected how aggressive they were.

My daughter was born premature, and was up in the 90% range. She was in NICU so she went under the bilirubin lights for a couple of days. She looked like a carrot! The only other thing they can do is to supplement with formula because the only way to get rid of jaundice is through the stools, and if you're milk isn't fully in, then it will stay longer than it should.

It's a problem dealing with the liver.

Supplementing is a good thing at this point.

In the country I come from they never made such a big deal out of jaundice, nearly every newborn has it. I had a baby three weeks ago and they were so pushy about the bilirubin test, it came back really low. The best thing is to have the baby in the sun as much as possible if you have south facing windows, or outside if you live in the south.

When babies are born they have an abundance of red blood cells. Those blood cells die and have to be filtered by the liver. Usually the liver isn't developed enough to filter all of those blood cells. The cells get backed up and turn the skin and eyes that yellow color. My son had to do phototherapy. The light helps break down the cells. A bili-light was brought to my house and my son had to stay in it all day and all night. He came out for feedings and diaper changes. The pediatrician asked me to stop breastfeeding and give him formula. My son never wanted the breast again.

jaundice is a build up of bilirubin, something that is produced by an organ, kidney or liver, i forget which, my son had slight jaundice when he was born, they said the way to get rid of the bilirubin is when he poops his body is getting rid of it, i was not producing enough breastmilk so he was not eating quite what he needed to, so we supplemented with formula when we needed to so that he would poop more, he had to gave blood tested a few times and got over it in a week and a half

my mother said that i had it and its all about the liver not working. most of the time they keep the baby in an incubator and tell you to put your baby in the sun a lot. most of the time it clears up and is a normal problem that babies have. while it is frustrating and scarey, i hope that your baby doesnt have to live with it.