Reflux

Brianna

maandrew — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 20:52:34 -0500

Brianna was born at 23 weeks gestation. She had retinopathy of prematurity surgery, PDA ligation. She received her trach tube at 3 months old. We met her in January 2010 when we adopted her into our family. She has weaned off the ventilator and off of oxygen while at home. Her trach is scheduled to be removed on February 11th.

LucyJ

LucyJ — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:24:30 -0400

Nicola was born on the 16. October 2009, after what I thought was a really healthy pregnancy, at 42 weeks gesturation. Labour was straight forward and went well. Immediatly after birth Nicola struggled badly to breath. Everything from there and for the next 3 days is more or less a blur to me. She has been rushed away to be intubated straight away.

rocky1214

rocky1214 — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:26:03 -0400

I was diagnosed with Failure to Thrive, which required my mom to be induced on 12/9/09. Her labor failed to progress and I was born full term on 12/11/09 via a C-section. I swallowed some meconium while in my mom’s tummy, but doctors were able to suction it out before it went to my lungs and it caused no proble

Tara D'Alessandro

tara_mommy09 — Sat, 15 May 2010 13:01:52 -0400

Tara was a 26 week micro preemie born on October 1, 2009....among other things I had IUGR that restricted her growth to that of a 21 weeker, she weighed only 15 oz (430 grams) when she was born. She has overcome a great many things, primarily her small size.

mom2micah

mom2micah — Sun, 09 May 2010 21:20:30 -0400

Micah is a smiling, talkative 18 month old with a clinical diagnosis of Central Congenital Hypoventilation Syndrome but does not have the genetic markers for it according to the first test run. He has had Neuroblastoma (found at 5 months), it was removed and has had No Evidence of the Disease since April 27th, 2009. He also struggles with swallowing liquids and has all his liquids thic

mface

mface — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:13:21 -0400

Sam was admitted to PICU due to aspiration pneumonia. She was placed on a ventilator and after a few days they tried to extabate her. This failed. They tried two more times and it failed each time. The doctors decided that she needed to have a tracheostomy. This was d

Samuel Ryan Raozen

samuel — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:33:37 -0500

For complete biography you may go to www.babysamuel-richardraozen.blogspot.com

MaryJane Kate

wahenle — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:13:14 -0500

MaryJane was born on Feb 21, 2009 - a week late. She never turned during the last few months and was delivered by emergency c-section. MaryJane was not breathing very well and it was decided that evening that she would transferred an hour a way to Sutter Memorial in Roseville, CA since our hospital didn't have the equipment to help her. It was found that she had a soft cleft p

DevynnsMommy

DevynnsMommy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:30:03 -0500

Devynn was born full term on March 22nd, 2009. We had know about her heart defect since November 11th, 2008. During open heart srgery when she was 3 days old, the surgeons damaged the phrenic nerve. This nerve controld the diaphragms. She was unable to breathe on her own for 9 weeks. She was intubated for 4 weeks until her doctors decided to do a trach and g-tube.

greg-parris-luca

greg-parris-luca — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:00:35 -0500

Luca was born on january the 14th 2009 at 25weeks weighing 2pound 3ounces, this was over his estimate weight of a pound or less. As you can probably guess the whole family where worrying at this time as he was born so prem. He spent his first 8 months of his life in a neo-natal unit.