G-Tube

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.

johblues

johblues — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:53:14 -0400

Amirah was born on January 13, 2010. She was a 27 weeker and was only 1lb 4oz at birth. She was trached at about 3 1/2 months old. And had the nissen and g-tube surgery about 6 weeks later. She is currently vent dependent.
We are in the process of getting ready to bring her home (hopefully mid September).

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.

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.

Sophie

Carebear — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:23:24 -0500

Sophie was born on October 20, 2008 at 32 wks gestation via emergency c-section. She was prediagnosed in utero with Down Syndrome and a heart defect. Sophie spent the first 3 months of her life in the NICU at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. During that time she overcame numerous odds and received several surgical procedures, including a G-tube Nissen and PDA lig

triplet mom jimmy

triplet mom — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:59:49 -0500

Micah

tbhartman — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:27:53 -0500

My sweet Micah was born at 8/31/09 via EXIT to airway at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital. After being weaned off the vent at about three weeks old, he began to struggle and was trached at 5 weeks old.

Ally Deso

tkdeso — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:03:04 -0500

Ally has faced over 15 surgeries already in her short five years. Her twin sister Katie is doing well and has been a big support and love in her life. Someday we hope and pray that she will join the decannulated group. Ally had her trach placed when she was 5 months old for Laryngomalacia. Ally was in the NICU for five months before she finally came home to us.