jaundice and more pics

As some of you may have noticed, I'm posting this late at night. Right now it's my shift, I'm taking the baby and making sure that he only wakes his mother up when absolutely necessary. Cyndi's so exhausted she can hardly function, so here I am making sure that she only has to be awake long enough to feed the boy. This is approximately what he looks like right now.



His Grandma Veronin wrapped him up nice and tight, and he's been asleep for two and a half hours now. She's very good at this.

As some of you are aware, Mike's got a touch of the jaundice. I wish I could remember the numbers, but they put him on the borderline between high risk and medium risk. The last day we were in the hospital the nurses put him in a UV bed and we got these adorable pictures.





I wish that I had gotten one with the whole bed in the picture, but I didn't so y'all will have to deal. The second picture shows his preferred position when sucking on a pacifier. It works well to hold it in when he doesn't forget what he's doing and jerk it right out of his mouth.

These come from earlier today after I changed the boy and he fell asleep on the changing table. No worries on his bowels working correctly -- even though he's only 4 days old, he's pooing at a 8 day level. We're so proud. When we let him, he seems to prefer to sleep on his side with his hands in this general position. A lot of the time he'll have his hand under his head, which is very close to my preferred sleeping position.





Sorry about the upside-down perspective, but it was the best angle to show both of his hands.

Finally a picture showing how much Mike absolutely adores his mother (you'll notice the yellow skin -- that's the jaundice). One of the hardships with nursing him is that he'll be absolutely starving, but when Cyndi's holding him he prefers to cuddle with her. If Cyndi's in the room he'll usually spot her and be cute at her. It's enough to make a lesser man jealous.



You'll also notice that he's got a rockin' tan. There was a baby from Southern California that was asking him what his secret was, but he'll never tell.