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Baby Peyton Road 2 Recovery
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As I sit in my daughters darkened NICU room, I look around at the beeping machines and flashing numbers and just cry. In the past week I have experienced every emotion possible and found myself in every parent’s nightmare, seeing their new born helpless with tubes coming out of their mouth connected to a machine. As a mom you can’t help but question was it something I did wrong? You go through stages of feeling shame, guilt, or inadequacy. Feeling like it was my fault that my daughter was born prematurely, as if my body had failed us both. Everyone keeps asking how are you doing and how are you feeling, and you put on your strong mommy face on and tell them you are ok when deep down you are an emotional wreck. This is my life right now…..
What started as a routine 6-month checkup for Baby Peyton, Gary, and myself, quickly progressed into something life changing in a matter of hours. I was under the impression that I was having a pretty good pregnancy (no vomiting, very little swelling, no headache’s or severe pains, etc...) so going into our 6th month ultra-sound screening we were expecting to hear good news on how our pregnancy was progressing healthily. That wasn’t the case on Wednesday September 25th, 2019. The doctor who was examining us expressed that Baby Peyton was measuring a little smaller than expected and wanted to run some additional test for precautionary reasons. What she found was that my blood work indicated severe preeclampsia and I was hospitalized immediately. For those of you who are unaware of what Preeclampsia is, it’s a serious disease that puts both the mom and baby at risk due to high blood pressure. It can abruptly happen to any pregnant women during their second trimester, without any significant symptoms being present. The mom is at a high risk of suffering a seizure, stroke, organ damage, or death during delivery from Preeclampsia. And the baby could experience a premature birth, or death (still born). I was immediately put on medications to prevent seizures from my climbing blood pressure that makes you vomit profusely and feel as if your entire body is on fire, and then ambulanced to a high-risk placement in a hospital with a NICU in case they needed to deliver Peyton immediately.
After being hospitalized for only 4 days Peyton’s heart rate dropped significantly and the doctors made the decision to deliver Peyton and perform an emergency C section. Given only 30 minutes to prepare for this, Gary and I immediately dropped to our knees and prayed to God to give our baby girl the strength to make it through the surgery. By the grace of God, we gave birth to Peyton Giselle Stanley on Sept 29that 4:25am and she weighed in at 1 lbs. 2 oz. Peyton was born a premature baby and will be in NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) until her official due date of Jan 14th, 2020. We are truly blessed that God has showed our baby girl favor, but we know we have a long journey ahead of us.
This fund is to help us with the different expenses that come up during this hard time. During this short period of time our life has changed tremendously and as a result I have been facing emotional and financial stress. As a hairstylist I provide services to my clients that are very time consuming and over the course of the next 3-4 months I need to dedicate that time to myself and my daughter’s health which in return means absolutely no income on my end. But during this moment that I felt that God was telling me slow down and take this opportunity to be completely present with what’s going on. By helping to provide any financial assistance you will be helping me as a mom to be 100%present in my daughter’s recovery journey, free time to be at the hospital as needed to bond with my baby and more education opportunities to engage with Baby Peyton on her road to good health. Please continue to keep my family in your prayers. This will not be an easy journey for us but with your help and God’s good faith we will make it through. For we know that God will fight our battles if we trust and believe in him and for that reason we have already won! Please continue to pray for my family for prayer really changes things. Thank you to everyone who has contributed in any kind of way.
-LOVE KEIASHIA, GARY, & BABY PEYTON
What started as a routine 6-month checkup for Baby Peyton, Gary, and myself, quickly progressed into something life changing in a matter of hours. I was under the impression that I was having a pretty good pregnancy (no vomiting, very little swelling, no headache’s or severe pains, etc...) so going into our 6th month ultra-sound screening we were expecting to hear good news on how our pregnancy was progressing healthily. That wasn’t the case on Wednesday September 25th, 2019. The doctor who was examining us expressed that Baby Peyton was measuring a little smaller than expected and wanted to run some additional test for precautionary reasons. What she found was that my blood work indicated severe preeclampsia and I was hospitalized immediately. For those of you who are unaware of what Preeclampsia is, it’s a serious disease that puts both the mom and baby at risk due to high blood pressure. It can abruptly happen to any pregnant women during their second trimester, without any significant symptoms being present. The mom is at a high risk of suffering a seizure, stroke, organ damage, or death during delivery from Preeclampsia. And the baby could experience a premature birth, or death (still born). I was immediately put on medications to prevent seizures from my climbing blood pressure that makes you vomit profusely and feel as if your entire body is on fire, and then ambulanced to a high-risk placement in a hospital with a NICU in case they needed to deliver Peyton immediately.
After being hospitalized for only 4 days Peyton’s heart rate dropped significantly and the doctors made the decision to deliver Peyton and perform an emergency C section. Given only 30 minutes to prepare for this, Gary and I immediately dropped to our knees and prayed to God to give our baby girl the strength to make it through the surgery. By the grace of God, we gave birth to Peyton Giselle Stanley on Sept 29that 4:25am and she weighed in at 1 lbs. 2 oz. Peyton was born a premature baby and will be in NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) until her official due date of Jan 14th, 2020. We are truly blessed that God has showed our baby girl favor, but we know we have a long journey ahead of us.
This fund is to help us with the different expenses that come up during this hard time. During this short period of time our life has changed tremendously and as a result I have been facing emotional and financial stress. As a hairstylist I provide services to my clients that are very time consuming and over the course of the next 3-4 months I need to dedicate that time to myself and my daughter’s health which in return means absolutely no income on my end. But during this moment that I felt that God was telling me slow down and take this opportunity to be completely present with what’s going on. By helping to provide any financial assistance you will be helping me as a mom to be 100%present in my daughter’s recovery journey, free time to be at the hospital as needed to bond with my baby and more education opportunities to engage with Baby Peyton on her road to good health. Please continue to keep my family in your prayers. This will not be an easy journey for us but with your help and God’s good faith we will make it through. For we know that God will fight our battles if we trust and believe in him and for that reason we have already won! Please continue to pray for my family for prayer really changes things. Thank you to everyone who has contributed in any kind of way.
-LOVE KEIASHIA, GARY, & BABY PEYTON
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Keiashia Key Wood
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Chicago, IL