Glow Worm days are over!

Here’s Gianna sporting her Glow Worm outfit a.k.a. her bili-light.  Some of you have asked about the bili-light so I thought I’d take a picture so you could see.   It wraps around the baby’s torso and is hooked up to a machine that “feeds” light through a tube to the bili-blanket.  Gianna had to be on it for 23 hours a day.  She was allowed off only to go to the doctor visits.  This bili-blanket only covered half of her torso.  (Some wrap all the way around the torso–like the one Therese had when she was born.) So  we had to move it to the other half after 10-11 hours and keep rotating it.  As you might imagine, nursing and sleeping was not the easiest thing to do.  On top of that the machine wasn’t very portable, so we were pretty much confined to her crib and our bed. 

The good news, though, is that we were officially released from the bili-light this afternoon.  Gianna’s bilirubin level went down to 12.9!!  Praise the Lord!  And she managed to gain half a pound over the weekend!  Woohoo!!!

Thank you again for all your prayers!  And thank you to Our Lady of San Juan and of course St. Gianna!