Help Us Honor Baby TJ's Brave Fight

today we are asking for help for funeral services for baby TJ i was 22 weeks and 2 days into my pregnancy when we found out something was wrong with our baby boy the doctor thought it might be trisomy 18 and tried to talk us into getting a medical abortion we decided to do further testing and to not give up on our baby boy with further testing at u of m and they diagnosed him with multiple congenital abnormalities march 12th he made his way into the world he had to stay at in the nice at u of m because all of his complications starting at a week old he had his first surgery it was for a congenital diaphragmatic hernia (cdh) which is a hole in our muscle that separates our stomach from our chest with that hole being on his right side it caused his liver to move into his chest and smush his right lung they was able to pull his liver down and close the hole and it healed perfectly fine he had to get a trach placed because his airway was to small then around the end of april he had developed fluid on his lungs and the medicine they tried to use to resolve it didnt help so he had to have another surgery 6/24/24 to remove the lining off his lungs to remove the fluid he had a rocky recovery trying to figure out what formula to give him but make sure the fluid didnt come back 7/15/24 he had surgery on his skull they removed the ridge on his forehead and did helmet therapy to try to shape out his head shortly down they line he kept getting stomach bleeds so it started a bumpy road but he got better if he didnt need heart surgery he couldve cane home they wanted to put him on his home ventilator to see how he would do 8/30/24 he went and got heart surgery they had to patch a hole and reconstruct his pulmonary vein surgery went as planned recovery was the worst he had got so swollen his heart didnt have room to move so they reopened his chest then his blood pressure kept dropping so he got put on ecmo then he was accumulating to much fluid and they was worried bout his kidney’s so he was put on a crrt machine which is to pull the fluid out hid blood they was sble to get a little over 2 pounds of fluid off he ended up coming off the crrt machine they jept trying to do ecmo trails to get him to come off ecmo but his heart couldnt do it he ended up accumulating alot more fluid and his heart couldnt had got too weak to keep fighting my baby boy fought long and hard for 6 ina half months