maybe tomorrow...

well, we don't get to go home today. Alexis' biliruben numbers have gone way down (from 25 to 14) and are now at an acceptable amount. But when they did tests on her urine yesterday there were some indicators of a urinary tract infection, so the dr. wants to keep her here one more night and test her urine again in the morning. She said if Alexis developed a uti after she was sent home, so would run a really high fever and we'd have to bring her back to the emergency room, so rather than risk that we have to stay one more night.

Hopefully her urine is clean in the morning and they'll discharge us. Luckily Alexis really likes it under those lights, so she's not crying at all. She just wiggles around when she's awake, but sleeps most of the time. Andrew and I both agree that they need to sell these incubators for home use! She has only cried when being poked/prodded by the nurses. Normally at home she hates not being held, so we were worried she'd be crying the whole time and we wouldn't be able to hold her.

On a side note, we're very proud of her motor skills at a week old. In her wiggling around she keeps rolling from her back to her side. I told Alexis that I was impressed, but she needed to stay on her back! haha... but we keep putting her on her back and she keeps rolling to her side, apparently she prefers to sleep on her side :)