Miracle baby Emerson

Hello all! I am starting this for my best friend and her family. (Story below) They are leaving it all in God's hands while they navigate this very unexpected situation and roller coaster of emotions. This was a total surprise and shock to them. They had no idea they were even pregnant, much less did they know they'd be going into early labor just three days after finding out they were expecting. They were rushed to a hospital aways away from where they live and as we all know hotels aren't cheap. They are juggling paying for hotels every night, as well as all regular bills, while being there for there sweet baby girl. I'm creating this to help take some of this stress and worry off of them. If you can't help financially, please share, that would be greatly appreciated, as well! We all thank you in advance.

Story:

Ok friends and family, ready to have your minds blown with yet another Pierson story that shows just how amazing our God is?

Due to the shock of this news and and all that has occurred in such a short time, I am just now getting a chance to share publicly. The people that did know and have been here for us and prayed for us, we truly thank you because we couldn't have done it without you!

STORY TIME:

Kenny and I tried for about 16 years to get pregnant. We went through fertility treatments and so many tests to find answers, but always came up short. We were even told by one doctor that they wouldn't help us because we just couldn't physically have a baby.

We found our peace eventually in this and asked God what we should do next. He led us to fostering. We were the only couple in the group in our foster training class that were there only for fostering. We knew we wanted to help not just children, but their families, and that's exactly what we did. We believe God rewarded us greatly by our sweet baby Alyas coming to us at a day old to be adopted! We never looked back!

I made my peace with never get to birth a child or have the daughter I always dreamed up because my perfect little boy was enough for my heart! So now I'm coming up on being 40 years old this year and God says "not just yet Heather".........

I have been having stomach issues, among other small problems over the past few months. I finally came to the conclusion of it being my gallbladder, but as most of us that deal with no insurance know, we can't do much about it. So I sucked it up and kept on trucking. Recently I had been getting more tired and my stomach was hurting more often. I also had stopped losing weight, even though I was still eating right and actively working out 5 days a week. I then started gaining weight and was getting so frustrated that my stomach I worked so hard to almost get flat was coming back.....

Friday I was at Dollar Tree and decided to randomly grab a pregnancy test. Not because I thought there was even a chance, but because I wanted to mark things off the list of what it could be before going to see a doctor. Seconds after I peed, bam! Y'all, that test said positive. If I could even try explain what was going on in my head, I'd try, but can't. I told Kenny and he said we would buy another one that evening. We bought 4 and of course instantly all four were positive. The weekend was a big whirlwind of emotions, as we had to wait until Monday to find somewhere to go to confirm this. It didn't seem real, so we were worried it was something else causing the positive test. I couldn't tell literally anyone because I didn't want anyone else worrying.

Made it to Monday. Spent the whole morning on the phone getting turned down to be seen. Earliest anyone could do was August. Finally found this amazing place where I went to get an official pregnancy test done. Pregnant. Confirmed. 16 weeks! Made an appt at health department to be seen for the first time next Friday. That was it. We just had to make it two weeks without telling anyone. So we planned on how to tell our parents in such a unique way and ordered everything......

Tuesday comes along. We drop little man at the gym and head to the gym. At this point I'm in pain and I was having a lot of discharge and leakage. Google says this is normal, and by the way, no it's not lol. I didn't believe it was either and got worried. Kenny took me straight to emergency room. They did tests on my discharge and said I was fine. No STDs. Well thanks but that's not why I came! They were about to send us home when I asked if they could do an ultrasound because supposedly I was pregnant and I was worried. Y'all! We saw our baby!!! Real!!!! AND I was not 16 weeks, but 21.3 weeks! Of course it left us both crying of joy! Until the tech asked me to stay laying down until someone could talk to me......

Doctor comes in and tells me my cervix is open and they are worried about miscarriage. They sent us upstairs to see the OBGYN and he was in quick and urgently. Checked me out and said the cervix itself didn't look bad like they had said, but he was concerned about the leaking. He felt my water had broke. This caused another rush. They were transferring me to the next hospital over, where they could handle premies at a younger ago.......

I was finally moved around 1am and spent Wednesday being monitored all day. The goal was to keep me in bed and calm, keeping the baby in as long as possible. The team here said the earliest they could deliver successfully was 22 weeks, so baby needed to stay in. At least a week. We then have another ultrasound, with measures baby at 21.6. Perfect! We were so much closer! We even asked her to try her best to see the sex, as the other ultrasounds were so rushed and they were more worried about the concerned things. After a LONG try, you saw it! GIRL!!!!!!!

I was doing well most of Wednesday, until I wasn't. I went to the bathroom and that was the first time I spotted blood, and a blood clot so big I thought it was the baby in the toilet and I about how a panic attack. They grabbed the ultrasound again and baby was still there and heartrate was amazing! From there, the bleeding sadly continued for a couple hours before I finally freaked out. I felt none of the people I told were caring and nobody was doing anything. Finally one of my doctors came in and I broke down to her - how scared I was and how I was worried I'd end up delivering in the room I was in and losing her (I wasn't in labor and delivery or where any of the specialists for this type of thing were yet). I then started gushing blood and she looked. This caused panic and everyone scrambled and got me up to the next floor......

I was not going to a room. I was going in for an emergency c-section (classical type) and my husband wasn't there! He was on his way. Thank God I had my friend Chelsea with me because she was amazing throughout this part. She got dressed in her gear, ready to come in the surgery room with me incase Kenny didn't make it back. The team had to move quick, but they were amazing and actually kept making excuses to move a little slower to give Kenny time as they prepped me. He made it with a minute or so to spare!!

We were told that since there were so many dates given for how far along I was, it was impossible to know which was right. Due to this, they wouldn't know until baby came out if they could even help her. If she was even a day under 22 weeks, they couldn't. So Kenny and I both bawled our eyes out and prayed while they delivered her.........

Our girl is a fighter! She came out literally kicking!!!!!! They saved her!!!!!!! Turned out she was 22 weeks and 2 days! The whole OR team was absolutely amazing!!!!......

Today is Thursday. One day since our beautiful miracle baby was born and she is absolutely perfect! She is doing amazing! Extremely small at 1lb and 2 oz, and a very long road ahead of her, but we have had nothing but great news. We do know this will be a very hard rollercoaster to ride, but we also know that God's got us! So I hope you enjoyed my story time! World, meet our beautiful, perfect, warrior baby daughter Emerson Ann! Her name means warrior, and we will call her Emmy! Big brother came today, and though he can't see her, we told him all about her and he's on top of the world too!

Please pray for our family through this and please never give up on a prayer you might have prayed 20 years ago. Remember, it's God's timing, not ours!

We are exhausted, but doing well! I think I'm being discharged tomorrow and we will then start planning how to best care for both of our babies, but we can't wait to enjoy being together!!