On Tuesday, July 24th, 07....my daughter, who was only seven months pregnant, went into preterm labor. They were able to stop the contractions but said they didn't have the equipment to handle premature births under 36 weeks, so she was taken by ambulance to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. After she arrived there, she was given numerous tests and the like only to be told the baby was diagnosed with fetal hydrops, which according to the doctors is almost always fatal to the infant. He was only given a 25% chance that he'd live. To my understanding, he has fluid buildup in and around every vital organ in his tiny body including under the skin..
On Friday, July 27th, 2007 @ 10:59am....she gave birth to her son, ALEX....who weighed 4 lbs. 10 oz....the first minute of his life, they had to perform immediate cpr on him because they couldn't hear a heart beat, but they said that could've been because of the fluid buildup...he was taken straight away to the neonatal icu.....last I heard, he had tubes going into his chest to both lungs to drain the fluid and an iv going into his umbilical cord....many tests have been done on lil' Alex, but we haven't heard anything back yet and I haven't heard anything myself since leaving the hospital after spending a few hours with my daughter late Friday night. She did get to see him that night, but didn't get to hold him...(I didn't get to see him)....so I guess no news is good news, right? or I can at least hope & pray that it is...
All I ask is that you pray for my grandbaby and for my daughter, she really needs it now. This is so hard for her to deal with and she had said to me that she didn't know how she was going to cope if she didn't get to bring her baby home with her.....Of course I was at home two hours away on the phone to her and all I could do was cry, I wanted to hug her so tightly. It's hard on me also, as we've never had this kind of thing happen in our family, ever!
I'll keep posting here about this, but if he passses away, I'm going to put a memorial here on my page to him and there'll be no more updates. Thank you for the prayers in advance...
