Saturday, May 13, 2006
Hagen Galt Ming-Yu Knight
First, the good news...we have finalized the birth certificate and have actually chosen a name for our beloved son:
Hagen Galt Ming-Yu Knight
Hagen means "youthful". Galt means "empowered" (in addition to its other significant meaning captured in earlier posts). Ming-Yu means "brighten the Universe" and Knight, as we all know, means slack-jawed yokel. We will call him Galt for the most part.
Now, for the trying part....yesterday we were told that Galt had a 6.8 reading on his billirubin test. Nothing to worry about (for Jaundice). Then, this morning at 7am, we were told that he needed to start wearing the "bili blanket" for his Jaundice! Apparently, at around midnight, his levels were tested and the reading was over 11 (under 10 is safe), but noone had told us. So, not a good way to start the morning. They then started talking about keeping us in the hospital one more night which neither of us thought we could handle. We talked to the pediatric doc on duty and he gave us the go ahead to be discharged and set up a home bili blanket system just like what we had with Liska. We needed to be discharged by noon because the blanket was going to be delivered by 1pm. We also agreed to go back for further testing at 6pm and again at 8am Sunday. So, we got home and got settled in...Kat did a feeding and we both took short naps. When we awoke, we realized that the blankets had not been delivered! We called the hospital, they called the delivery guy and the delivery guy called us....'will not be delivered until 9pm' Can you believe it! Galt misses out on 8 hours of bili light time because of poor logistics! Well, to cut a too long story short (I am very tired), the lights arrived and he is under them now. His swelling is also going down (apparently, because the pushing only lasted 10 minutes, he was bruised and had some puffiness). He is a great looking kid. Hard to tell from the first pics, but I will post some tomorrow that will knock your socks off. :-) For now, enjoy the pics of our ridiculously cute daughter...one just being cute and the other reading to her new baby brother!
I hope everyone is doing well and I will keep you updated as I get the energy...won't be working again until May 22, so hopefully will get some sleep between now and then.
Love to all!
Hagen Galt Ming-Yu Knight
Hagen means "youthful". Galt means "empowered" (in addition to its other significant meaning captured in earlier posts). Ming-Yu means "brighten the Universe" and Knight, as we all know, means slack-jawed yokel. We will call him Galt for the most part.
Now, for the trying part....yesterday we were told that Galt had a 6.8 reading on his billirubin test. Nothing to worry about (for Jaundice). Then, this morning at 7am, we were told that he needed to start wearing the "bili blanket" for his Jaundice! Apparently, at around midnight, his levels were tested and the reading was over 11 (under 10 is safe), but noone had told us. So, not a good way to start the morning. They then started talking about keeping us in the hospital one more night which neither of us thought we could handle. We talked to the pediatric doc on duty and he gave us the go ahead to be discharged and set up a home bili blanket system just like what we had with Liska. We needed to be discharged by noon because the blanket was going to be delivered by 1pm. We also agreed to go back for further testing at 6pm and again at 8am Sunday. So, we got home and got settled in...Kat did a feeding and we both took short naps. When we awoke, we realized that the blankets had not been delivered! We called the hospital, they called the delivery guy and the delivery guy called us....'will not be delivered until 9pm' Can you believe it! Galt misses out on 8 hours of bili light time because of poor logistics! Well, to cut a too long story short (I am very tired), the lights arrived and he is under them now. His swelling is also going down (apparently, because the pushing only lasted 10 minutes, he was bruised and had some puffiness). He is a great looking kid. Hard to tell from the first pics, but I will post some tomorrow that will knock your socks off. :-) For now, enjoy the pics of our ridiculously cute daughter...one just being cute and the other reading to her new baby brother!
I hope everyone is doing well and I will keep you updated as I get the energy...won't be working again until May 22, so hopefully will get some sleep between now and then.
Love to all!
