The lights came that afternoon and they were miserable. The baby has to be in nothing but a diaper so that their skin absorbs as much of the light as possible, they have to lay on a hard surface with just a receiving blanket and the lights don't put off any heat so you have to crank up the heat in the house and monitor their body temperature. He had to wear little cotton goggles to protect his eyes and someone has to sit with him 24 hours a day to make sure he doesn't pull them down over his nose.
Marq took the first shift until about 4 a.m. Ledger was miserable, just as he would start to fall asleep his arms would jerk and wake him up. They told me to feed him every 2 hours to help flush his system so I wasn't getting any sleep either. It was a very long night for all of us, it was hell. Friday morning we went to the lab first thing for another blood test. The poor baby is so used to being poked he sleeps through them now and his poor little heals are covered in scabs. They called that afternoon to let us know that his levels had gone down but we had to keep him under the lights for the rest of the day. Marq's mom was nice enough to come and sit with Ledger while Marq & I got some sleep and I think she will agree, those lights are torcher!!! We are SO glad to be done with them!
