Ephram's Third Week

By the time we started into our third week with Ephram, things were feeling a bit more sane. We were still going to the doctor every week for Ephram to have a weight check, and to the lactation consultants for help with feeding. We were very tired of going to the doctor, but Ephram was gaining some weight and his bilirubin level had dropped from a high of 15.9 down to 7 very quickly. Ephram also "woke up" and was having an average of two long alert periods every day.

Unfortunately, our house also got hit with an illness... courtesy of Charlie's preschool a cold entered our home. First Charlie got it. We did our best to keep Charlie and Ephram seperate from each other. But next, Andy caught the cold. And for him it took a quick turn for the worse as he developed bronchitis. This made for four very long days for me, and a bit of a set back on my sanity. But we survived.

And then Ephram got sick, one day before he turned four weeks old. His poor little eye started oozing yellow and he was sneezing and coughing. Luckily, it wasn't very bad and he never ran a fever that merited attention. He was mostly over the cold one week later. I also caught a very minor version of it... thank goodness Andy was well enough to take over a few things for me again!

Ephram seemed to get cuter and cuter to me throughout the week. Here are some of the pictures we took!