The Details

Sage now has a middle name: Elliot. Sage Elliot Huss. Nice. Kind of rythmic.

Jennifer came home from the hospital on Sunday afternoon about 5:00pm. She was really hoping to come home Saturday, but Sage had lost just a bit over 10% of his body weight, and the hospital wanted to be sure he was feeding ok. Jennifer was bummed she had to start giving him formula, as her milk is coming in fine according to the midwife. The midwife thought that he might have lost weight because he was retaining fluid in the womb, since he wasn't showing any signs of dehydration. Sage was also a little jaundiced, and they didn't want to let him go home with his bilirubin levels a tiny bit high. Sigh. The hospital was just covering their butt, but it was kind of annoying since Jennifer wanted to come home. So we walked around and found a good sunbeam in the corridor of the hospital, and let him sunbathe for an hour in the morning and again in the afternoon. It must have helped, because his billirubin came down enough where they were willing to let him go home finally. They were still worried about his weight, but once they figured out the midwife would be supervising, they released their clutches and we were off! Woohoo! I went to get the car, Jennifer packed up Sage into the car seat, and we loaded all the balloons into the car and went back to her house. Yay!

Jennifer told me last night that Sage has now gained back 4 ounces, and she probably won't have to supplement much longer. Double yay!