I have done both in - home and in -
hospital phototherapy with mine.
Not exact matches
If they do need interventions to prevent their levels from increasing,
phototherapy (light therapy) is usually performed in a
hospital setting, plus either formula supplementation or intravenous fluid and / or a feeding tube.
Coupled with his short
hospital stay when he was three to five days old for
phototherapy due to jaundice, we were off to a rough start.
Phototherapy is usually done in a
hospital, but sometimes babies can be treated at home.
Exclusion criteria: «Dyads were excluded for atypical stays characterized by (1) a 2 - night or longer stay after a vaginal delivery; (2) a 4 - night stay or longer after a cesarean section; (3) a
hospital course with atypical complications (e.g., ambiguous genitalia, endometritis); or (4) newborn hyperbilirubinaemia requiring
phototherapy during the nursery stay.
Once she was out of the NICU and out of
phototherapy, I was able to spend more time being with her hanging out skin to skin in my
hospital room.
We went back into
hospital, where my baby was treated for jaundice with
phototherapy and put on a drip to rehydrate him.