What do I do to help rid my baby of jaundice?

It can be helpful to put your baby near a window in a well-warmed room, so the indirect light can reach their torso and limbs. For heavier does of jaundice (or with palms or soles are yellow too), hospital phototherapy treatment would also help. Jaundiced babies can become sleepy but need plenty of breastfeeding to cope with excreting the bilirubin, so it’s probably a good idea to feed a jaundiced newborn every 2–3 hours, even if it means rousing them. Complementary remedies that are traditionally accepted as assisting with jaundice are for the breastfeeding mother to take liver-boosting herbal remedies herself such as St Mary’s thistle, dandelion root or schisandra.