A Colored Baby

A couple of weeks before Levi was born,Heidi and I had the following conversation:

Me: Who do you think our baby will be?
Heidi: I think we will have a black baby.
Me: A black baby?!? Why a black baby?
Heidi: I would like to have a black baby.
Me: Well, usually babies are the same color as their mommies and daddies, and we're white, so the baby will be white too, just like you.
Heidi: Oh, that's too bad. Now I'm sad because I wanted a black baby.
I know! Maybe it could have black hair!

Then, a couple days after Levi arrived, I overheard her whispering to him:
I love you baby brother. I really wish that you could be a black baby.

Needless to say, she didn't get her wish, but she did get a yellow baby.
Our little Levi became quite jaundiced over the weekend. While the girls each had some mild jaundice as babies, Levi was yellow enough that I began to get concerned and put a call in to the midwife Sunday morning. She met us at the hospital to test his bilirubin level and sure enough his was high enough to warrant a night on a bili-blanket. So once again I spent Sunday night to Monday morning in the hospital with Levi. This time with him on a little glow bed and me not allowed to pick him up except for feeding times. I'm thankful that they now do the light from underneath instead of on top so his eyes didn't have to be covered and I could at least sit and talk with him while he was awake. By Monday morning his bilirubin level had gone down enough that he could come home and he was starting to look pink once again.
In other news, our little guy has started gaining weight once again and is looking much better and stronger. Thank you for your prayers! I had to start pumping and feeding him expressed milk in a bottle to get him to this point so my prayer now is that we'll be able to ease back into nursing soon and be able to skip all the pumping , bottles and sterilizing hassles. This time with a newborn is so precious and fleeting I'd rather spend it holding him than sterilizing bottles!