Payton's First Week and First Photo Shoot!

P.K. had a not so fun first week. I had to bring her back up to the hospital everyday for the following 4 days since we had brought her home. She had jaundice and she had to have her little heels pricked everyday for a blood test to see where her numbers were. Her white blood cell count was also high so they wanted to keep and eye on that, because of her ripping her umbilical cord at birth. It could have meant an infection of some sort. Thankfully her white blood cell count went down and she was checked out as fine. The Jaundice was another story. It is very common for babies. I had it, zack had it, etc. Her numbers were skyrocketing though. I also was beginning to breastfeed through all this. Because of her Jaundice numbers going up the doc said to breastfeed but supplement afterwards with a bit of formula, and the next step would be to push formula for a straight 12 hours. The more dirty diapers the less jaundice I guess. The problem is once I formula fed it was very hard to go back to breast feeding. By the end of the week, through mommy's many melt downs on feeding, and having to take a newborn out to the hospital everyday, P.K.'s numbers were down. I still don't understand why everybody thought she was jaundice, I just thought it was GREAT "Jersey Shore" tan! She is sweeter then ever and put up with all the blood tests really well including her first photo shoot. Poor child , but we went picture crazy! 

At the weeks end Zack and I went out for our first date night!We went to one of our good friends wedding and had a blast. Thank you SO much grandma and Grandpa Davis for watching P.K.! Payton is really loveing her little lamb chair! This is a plus for mommy , because she was able to watch mommy get ready for the night out and was just fine. It was very nice to be able to get out for a few hours and see all our friends!