Gastroschisis

Will be new grandma

My daughter found out she was with baby at a bad time. But decided to keep going and have it. At 18 weeks she had a ultrasound and her doc found problems. We live in a small town so we were asking to see another doc. Two days later (we don’t know what it is) she has another ultrasound and that’s when they tell us about gastroschisis. It’s amazing that a word like that you learn how to say and spell it real quick. So now this doc make a appointment with a children’s hospital that is 3 hours away from us to have more test.

At the hospital they took all their test and gave her the results and wanting her to let them know if she is going to keep the baby or not. She was smaller that is was suppost to be. Looked like there was problems with the brain and her feet looked wrong. It was like a bomb hit us. I could see my daughters heart braking right in front of me. How do you help someone when they have to decided something like this. And it didn’t help that one of many doctors that saw her say she should end it. Well, my daughter decided she was going all the way no matter what was wrong.

mind you she is only 19 years old. The next couple of weeks went by before a MRI could be done to check on how the brain was. When they were do, my grand baby had everything she needed upstairs(her brain) but they did tell here at that time her fluid was very low. So we were always solving one problem but gaining another. My daughter had so much stress on here but trying not to let it get to her for the sake on the baby. So now we are at 28 weeks. The doctors want her to go to 38 weeks. She has a ultrasound every week and her fluid is going back up. We keep waiting for the next bomb but it hasn’t come yet.

We have read everything we can on gastroschisis and that is how we found this web site. It has help reading from everyone here.

Thanks for your time helping other. I have learned to never give up!!!!!