The Green Family: 2 weeks

Time is flying and Riley Jane is already 2 weeks old! We had her 2 week doctor's appt today and unfortunately what should have been an easy appointment, turned into a little bit of a bump in the road. Out first concern was that Riley lost weight. With her spitting up and gagging issues, I knew that we were feeding her on the lower end of the scale, but since she was going 3 to 4 hours between feeds, having wet/dirty diapers, and not sleeping all day and night, I thought we were ok. So we came up with a game plan of trying to give her more volume first. If she didn't tolerate that, then we would go back down in volume, but feed a lot more often. If that still didn't work, then we will look at starting her on an anti-nausea medicine. Our next concern is that she still looked yellow. So we decided to get a billiruben test to see what was going on.
After we got home, I sat down and figured out how much she was actually eating in a 24 hour period. I am embarrassed to say, I was starving my child! She was eating an ounce and a half every 3-4 hours, which totaled only 9 ounces in a day! Again, since she never really showed signs of being hungry, I never really gave much thought into how much she was (or wasn't!) eating! Later that day her doctor called with the billiruben results. Her billieruben is high, but luckily still in the normal range. So he is confident that once we get some more food into her, that will help flush the jaundice out. We go back next week for a weight check, and I really think everything will be good. We have had 2 3 ounce bottles so far today, and for the most part, they seem to be staying down. So for now, we will continue with 3 ounce feeds and see how she does.
Here are some photos from the last week!

Grandpa was at Mt. Rushmore when Riley was born, so he didn't get to meet her until las week.

Sleeping through some of her tummy time

Sleeping with Daddy

Pretty Girl

Uncle Darren got the girls some ASU gear

Emma has learned how to watch TV on Daddy's computer

Riley didn't make things easy for me with her newborn photos. I would have to spend so much time positioning her hands, and of course now, she poses them on her own!

Robert's birthday was August 18. One of his favorite candies are Gummy Bears and Emma loves to share them with him. For his birthday, we got him this extra large gummy bear!