Katie the glow-worm

It took three days to get Katie home from the hospital because she developed "jaundice," which means that her liver isn't working quite right. A chemical called "bilirubin" is building up in her blood, and it can be poisonous.
In the old days, they would tell you to put the baby in the sunshine, because UV light will speed the process of breaking down the bilirubin. In today's high-tech age, they send you home with a fiber-optic mat that plugs into wall - we wrap it around her belly under her clothes and then giggle at the night-light effect.

She's doing really well - the jaundice and the warmth from the biliblanket make her sleepy and we're feeding her formula along with the breastmilk so that there's enough "bulk" for the bilirubin to "stick" to so it can be eliminated.

This treatment ended up lasting a whole week and every day she had to have a blood test from the visiting nurse.