Support protocol 2: For babies at home
Learn how to support the bioelectric and circadian systems of a newborn showing signs of jaundice at home
Help! I’m at home and my baby is showing signs of jaundice. What can I do?
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Protect your baby’s blood-brain barrier. As long as the blood-brain barrier and other cellular membranes remain intact, the bilirubin can’t harm them and will continue providing antioxidant protection to your baby. Stress and certain medications can increase the permeability of the blood-brain barrier. Review this possibility with any tests or medications suggested by your doctor.
Release your fears. Find joy in the present moment and ways to communicate that relaxation to your baby. This will help them pee and poop, the easiest way to clear bilirubin. If breastfeeding, relaxation will also help your milk flow. It can be helpful to remember the yellow pigment is a powerful antioxidant. It’s your baby’s natural way of protecting themselves from the natural stresses they are going through with the earth side transition.
Observe the quarters of the sun from outdoors, with your baby whenever possible. If you can, start with sunrise. Next best is starting with sunset. Then move in order through all the quarters. Use the app Dminder to avoid sunburn for both of you if at any time your shadows are shorter than you are (overhead sunlight). Otherwise, go by feel. A minimum dose of each kind of light (red sunrise, blue overhead, and red sunset) is about 15 minutes. A healing dose is 60 minutes of each. Depending on how much solar exposure you have been doing, you may or may not be able to take a healing dose of overhead sunlight all at once. It’s okay to do it in chunks of time with 15-20 minute breaks in the shade if the light feels too intense. Your baby won’t have any solar callus, so get someone else to take care of your baby if you are going to spend more than a few minutes under the sun when it is overhead or hot. If you and baby can’t get outdoors, open the window for exposure. Glass blocks many of the healing frequencies. Read: Benefits of Sunlight: A Bright Spot for Human Health.
Sing to your baby, massage them, and spend as much time skin-to-skin as you can. Your partner or another trusted individual can take turns at this as well. The heat, sound, and movement penetrate your baby's fascia. This energy helps build cellular EZ water that improves flow (and excretion). This cellular water also supports their blood-brain-barrier. Along with this, try to limit loud noises coming from machines in the environment, including high-volume bass music. If you can be by a fountain, the moving water can be supportive in giving natural sound that protects from intrusive sounds that increase heart-rates and stress.
Gather natural electrons from your environment. If possible, bring baby with you outside to practice earthing in a natural environment (ideally, you will be at least 1.5 miles away from any major electric power centers). To earth with your baby, hold them skin to skin and the electrons will flow from the ground through your feet and body, along to your baby on your chest. Going alone and then bringing back your charged body to do more of Step 3 is also supportive.
Limit “cold” artificial light at all times—anything that feels cool to the touch while it is on (LEDs and fluorescents). Also avoid lights that visibly flicker, or that you see a mechanical flicker pattern inside your eyelids after being under them. Instead, if artificial lighting is needed, use infrared lamps and incandescent bulbs. This keeps the stress-hormone cortisol in check so you can stay relaxed and present with your baby. It also provides heat to the all-important electron transport chain that makes water and ATP for your baby’s healing and protection. Natural sunlight, candles, moonlight, and starlight are always to be preferred for lighting. Read:
Keep nights dim and avoid fluoridated water and drinks. More than ever, if your baby is in a jaundiced state, you and your baby need circulating melatonin for it’s powerful antioxidant affect. Bright lights and fluoride both inhibit melatonin. Breast milk is the only source of melatonin for your baby because they can’t make it on their own yet. If pumping, label milk as nighttime/daytime, and make sure to feed nighttime milk at night and daytime milk in the day. This is the most powerful way to hormonally support your baby’s circadian rhythm. This rhythm controls the production and destruction of red blood cells, of which the byproduct is bilirubin. Read: