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I just finished printing a bunch of photos to put up at work, I found some great ones!  Tracy definitely takes some good pictures.  Here are several good ones!

Just a few ‘steps’, but Gabriel is WAY more mobile than yesterday!  He would play by himself for awhile on the floor rolling around among his toys, now we have to keep a hawk’s eye on him to make sure he doesn’t go too far – here are some pictures:

With the new baby in the house, we’ve seen some regressions in behavior from Jaxton…  He’s asking for bottles again (Gabe gets them periodically to supplement nursing until he puts on some more weight), he seems to want to nurse more often and gets a bit jealous when Gabe is nursing, and he’s been throwing more fits & temper tantrums.  I’m sure these things are temporary, but we weren’t expecting/ready for them.

In addition, Jaxton has developed a sudden fever (which could be a cause for some of those ‘new’ behaviors), he was reading about 100 degrees Fahrenheit but doesn’t have any other symptoms of being sick (like runny nose, sneezing, coughing, etc).  It turns out that teething tablets & Tylenol helped him, so it must be teething again.  That was the combo of medicines that helped him initially – his canines have broken through barely, but are coming in more fully now.

It’s somewhat ironic that we bring home a baby from the hospital and in the first week, our toddler kept us up more at night than the newborn.  There were two nights where he was up for hours at a time whining and crying, not much we can do other than hope he gets through it quickly.

I just realized I didn’t post pictures from Gabriel’s final day in the hospital and first day home, so figured I would throw those in here!  Ty is doing great with Gabe and Jax is already getting used to him.  It’s great to see that both Ty and Jax are trying to help with the new baby in the house!

Leaving the hospital, Gabe had slightly elevated bilirubin level which means that he has Neonatal jaundice – apparently very common.  The treatment is called Phototherapy where we have to keep him in a suit with a mesh back on top of a light bed pretty much constantly.  It was really difficult for us to welcome Gabriel home but not hold him at all!  Here’s some pictures of the equipment/setup:

A nurse comes daily to poke Gabe in the foot and take blood for testing as that’s a more accurate measure for bilirubin than the skin test.  This morning when the nurse came, he didn’t even cry – it seems that getting stuck in the foot with something sharp isn’t something that a 6 day old should get used to!  Here’s a picture from the hospital

Great news is that we got the bilirubin level back today at 11.3, which was back to normal range!  We’re super happy to be done with the lights so we can actually hold Gabriel again.  He’s doing great now, sleeping, eating – doing all the right stuff!  He’s also still sleeping WAY more than Jaxton did, even when Jax was a year old.