Jaundice in newborn 3 weeks old

I feel you, mommy 🥺 I want to share my experience but I hope you don’t follow me cause I realise that I was too worried about my baby and hurt her cause she had done blood test 12x for 8 weeks (PEH, Poly and KKH) 😩😫😢😭 her jaundice level was 289 and done phototherapy for 3 days 2 night, it was going down but after one week going up again..it was breastfeeding jaundice and my breastmilk didn’t enough so i mix with formula milk, yellow flower bath, suntanning although not frequently cause of most of the time raining. i done all the test and the result was okay and no problem with the liver..the doctor said jaundice could be longer until 2 months or 3 months as long as the baby was active, drink well, often poo and pee. My baby’s jaundice gone away at 8 weeks.. For peace of mind, you could do the test for liver problem, if the result doesn’t have liver problem but still jaundice..don’t worry, still feed her on demand cause jaundice will be go away although it takes time.. Virtual hug for you, mommy..your beautiful daughter will be alright❤️

If the current levels 162 and going down, I wouldn’t worry:) just let her drink lots of milk (of course, feed on demand. No need to overfeed), and that’s pretty much all you need to do. No need for suntanning (she may get sun burned) and flower baths. They routinely just do a liver function test after 3-4 weeks, but most of the time, the test just shows that this is likely physiological jaundice that will resolve. Both my daughters had jaundice and the levels took about 4-5 weeks to come down to a level where the polyclinic stopped testing. Don’t be distraught ok? It should be okay:)

As long as the numbers are going down should be fine! My baby had jaundice passed 30 days. Polyclinic referred me back to hospital to get baby's liver checked. She had so many blood tests done just within those few weeks. In the end all was well. Doctor said may be due to "breastmilk jaundice" which just causes prolonged jaundice in babies. I just made sure to feed my baby every 3 hours. After the doctor cleared her of jaundice (when she was 1.5 months), I fed her on demand.

my daughter also same, her jaundice went down on the 4th weeks. But her number wasnt so high, it was 150 and became 120 and 110 the 4th weeks already 101 so she never did the liver test but poked for blood test 3times :( if u r breastfeeding, u dont drink or eat so much herbal and ginger first until her jaundice went down. i stop all my herbal thingy n reduce ginger intake and her jaundice auto went down drastically. fyi, i didnt do suntan or flower bath for her.

my 2 weeks old baby reading is 202, doc recommended consistent feeding according to PD, reading at 250 needs to go for hototherapy and reading at 300 needs to admit hospital for further treatment my nephew which is one month old had Liver check and everything was fine, doc said it may be breastmilk jaundice you may want to seek another PD advise if u have concern

Hi mummy, my lo also had similar situation and was referred to KKH liver specialist after her second month. She had to follow up there every 6 monthly till she was 2 year old and was cleared totally without any surgery or medications.