My name Is chelsey, I am 19 years old. I was born with gastroschisis and have never met or talked to anyone else that was born with the same thing. I’ve never seen any baby pictures of myself when I was born because everything got stolen. I have a huge scar from my hip straight

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seems most posts are dealing with scars and mothers to be, but what about the complications later in life. i went through two surguries in my 20′s not to mention the two within the first two months of life. as i have reached 30 i have come to find it becoming more difficult to stay

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Hi, im 22 and was born with gastroschisis. I am currently trying to get reconstructive surgery because i hate my scar (and i know people say embrace it but thats not going to happen, its causing me lots of depression and has from when i knew i was different) Has anybody had reconstructive surgery. Did

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I have noticed more and more that a few of you are wanting to contact each other via Facebook, twitter etc so along with a brand new profile box that goes at the end of everyones contributions you will be able to see links to the contributors facebook, twitter, Google+ etc. You will also be

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Hi all, it’s not often I post, I am more in the background approving posts and comments and generally nodding at all of your stories when they have been so similar to ours. A quick update to the changes to the site over the past few days, you can obviously see the new design and

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We found out about a month ago that our baby has Gastrochisis an after struggeling with this for a period we decided to activly gather as much info as possible but I have a few questions that would love some 1 who has gone through it all themselves to comment on: First of all my

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Has anyone had genetic tests done in relation to Gastroschisis – if so what tests? I read something on a post about parent’s hair sample testing but can’t find the post now. Has anyone done this? How long after the baby is born is it done?

I was born with Gastroschisis in 1991 – my intestines were outside of my body and I underwent immediate surgery after birth to place them back inside. It wasn’t handled like in most cases where the intestines are allowed to fal back in slowly & I have a scar the entire length of my abdomen.

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My son was diagnosed in utero with Gastroschisis at 14 weeks. It was devastating news for us, we had a history of miscarriage and as a result we were having frequent scans, up till then waiting for a scan was terrifying, we kept thinking there would be no heartbeat like with our other pregnancies. Then

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This is my first post. I haven’t posted my story yet, but hope to shortly when I have time – briefly our son of 7 months was born with Gastroschis – we spent the first 9 weeks in hospital. He is exclusively breastfed and doing wonderfully well. The reason I am posting is we would

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Hi, I’m 18 and was born with gastroschisis. I’ve been quite ill recently firstly with really strong lower stomach pains which caused me to become really upset and sick. I was then diagnosed with glandular fever and got the same stomach pains again. I don’t know whether my immune system is down at the moment

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My name is Steph, I’m 19, and I am 29 weeks pregnant. At my scan ( 21 weeks approx ) I was told our little baby had a condition called Gastrochisis.  After crying and screaming the place down, I was referred to KEMH in Subiaco.  There, me and the baby have excellent care.  I have

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Hi Every 1. I’ve just been to my 12 week scan an was advised that our baby has Gastroschisis.  I was absolutley devasted at first as the whole thing seems scary and extremely daunting.  After reading some of the storys on this website an others i actually feel a tiny bit better about the whole

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Well my Boy is 5 weeks old now and is being cared for by the great staff at the Royal Belfast hospital for sick children. He has had a couple of infections that have set him back but hopefuly we’ve turned a corner and he will gradualy start to improve. He has been through alot

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hi my name is jasmine, i was born with gastroschisis in 1993, i decided to start researching some things about this condition just this year because i became quite interested in what was going on there. growing up i was teased and inspected you could say by other kids because of how weird it looked,

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hey, i have a son that was born with gastroschisis. he is now 4, 5 in december! i was just wondering what problems people hav had later in life if any, nd wat i should be aware of!? i worry alot nd like 2 know wat i might hav 2 deal with if any problem

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Hello to all, I was 20 weeks when the nurse called me to inform me that my baby would be born with gastroshisis.  I was confused and scared about what that was.  I did my research to ease my mind on what was to come my way and decided to go on with my pregnancy. 

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Im 21 years old. i was born in 1990 the middle child of alot of siblings. and the only one born with Gastroschisis. the last time i had surgery because of this was when i was 3 years old i got severly dehydrated because of a blockage in my intestines. i have a wonderful 4

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