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Hello everyone! After a hard pregnancy, I developed pre eclampsia and had to be induced at 35 weeks and 2 days pregnant. I had a perfect labor, until a few seconds before it was time to push. The worst thing imaginable happened. They couldn’t find his heart beat, and the doctor came in and found his umbilical cord had prolapsed, meaning it was coming out before him and his placenta, and it was cutting blood flow and oxygen from him for an unknown amount of time. They rushed us back and my amazing OB got him out as fast as humanly possible. I am so thankful the NICU team was already there just due to his age. When he was born his heart rate was 60, and he wasn’t breathing and was floppy. They intubated him, and started therapeutic hypothermia treatment where they cool his body for 72 hours and then rewarm him to let his brain heal and prevent any more brain damage. Since then he has been transferred to a hospital that is almost 6 hours away from us, across the state to a children’s hospital with a Neurologist that can give him the best care possible. He has had multiple EEGs to see if he is still having seizures after the cooling therapy and so far he hasn’t shown any. He is now breathing on his own which is amazing, but is still having spells where his oxygen and heart rate drop, he has to be 5 days free of those to go home, he is also still very sleepy from the medication that was sedating him so he maybe wakes up once a day; so he hasn’t gotten to learn how to eat yet. He has to be able to take 80% of his feeds by mouth. The amount of time he has left here is completely unknown. We have been here for 2 weeks with him now, and financially we can’t afford to be away from home much longer. Unfortunately we caught another bump in the road on his recovery and we have all caught Covid.
We really appreciate any and all donations. We are trying to do everything we can to keep all of us together. Thank you for taking the time to read Archers story.
We really appreciate any and all donations. We are trying to do everything we can to keep all of us together. Thank you for taking the time to read Archers story.