Limit of the spherical Bessel function of the second kind

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I know that the limit for the spherical bessel function of the first kind when $x<<1$ is:

$j_{n}(x<<1)=\frac{x^n}{(2n+1)!!}$

I can see this from the formula for $j_{n}(x)$ (taken from wolfram's webpage):

$j_{n}(x)=2^{n}x^{n}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^{n}(k+n)!}{k!(2k+2n+1)!}x^{2k}$

and applying the relation: $(2n+1)!!=(2n+1)!/2^{n}n!$ . So, the formula for the spherical bessel function of the second kind is (also taken from wolfram):

$y_{n}(x)=\frac{(-1)^{n+1}}{2^{n}x^{n+1}}\sum_{k=0}^{\infty}\frac{(-1)^{k}(k-n)!}{k!(2k-2n)!}x^{2k}$

The result I get for the limit $x<<1$ in this case is:

$y_n(x<<1)=\frac{(-1)^{n+1}(-n)!}{2^{n}(-2n)!}\frac{1}{x^{n+1}}$

But I don't know how to deal with these negative factorials. I think maybe I would need the relation $(2n-1)!!=(2n)!/2^{n}n!$ because in Jackson's Classical Electrodynamics 2nd edition book they give a result for this in chapter 16, it is:

$y_{n}(x<<1)=-\frac{(2n-1)!}{x^{n+1}}$

The question is: how to obtain this Jackson's result?