My daughter Kami's water broke at 20 weeks. Baby Ellie has a strong heartbeat and is constantly moving around. The Dr's said she wasn't viable and sent them home. We've had her on bedrest since she came home from the hospital. She is requiring daily IV'S in hopes it will help her and baby produce amniotic fluid. These bages are $66 a day. She will be admitted to the hospital on Feb 3rd 2025 until baby Ellie is born. Kami has been on bed rest since January 19th, and Bryce has missed so much work. Their due date is June 2nd 2025. This will help them with food, gas, and bills. Anything helps.

Eliyah’s Story from her mom and dad (Kami and Bryce)

As many people who are closer to us know, we have lost many babies in miscarriage. My husband had decided in September to have his vasectomy to stop us from continuing to go through the losses. At the appointment, Bryce decided to reveal to his doctor that I was not on board as I desperately wanted another child. The doctor then became more than reluctant to do the procedure and wanted to send us home to talk it over more. We both begged and pleaded for it to be done. I finally explained to him that I believe in God and that whether or not this procedure is done, God will give us a baby if it’s His will and that it will cause no rift in our marriage because my faith isn’t in whether or not we can conceive but it’s in God and His will. The procedure commenced. A few weeks later, we discovered I was again pregnant and conception had to have been the week he had his procedure. I struggled until 15 weeks with pretty debilitating nausea, vomiting, and stomach pain as I do with every pregnancy.

At 12 weeks, we named her Eliyah (Ellie-yah) which means “Ya is God” to give glory and honor to Him for this child that we had been waiting for.

At 16 weeks, I was doing much better and getting back to my old self and trying to get our home and schedules reorganized. My husband got to feel her kicking at this time. Kicking from the outside during a time when most people are just starting to feel internal movement. This is a testament to her strength.

At 20 weeks and 5 days, I had some excessive tiredness and went to take a nap. When I woke up, I felt a small gush of liquid and when I got up to go to the bathroom, another large gush followed. As my heart dropped, I cried out for my husband Bryce. I can’t lose her too, I kept thinking. It’s too early. I knew already our state generally considered the age of viability to be 24 weeks. We had a great aid team meet us in Start Up and take us to the hospital. The doctors there did not have any hope or ambition for us to continue carrying our sweet little girl. In fact, they continued to push us to “terminate” the pregnancy. Every scan and every Doppler check confirmed that she is strong and healthy. All of my tests have shown I have no signs of infection anywhere. No signs of labor. They continued to say we wouldn’t make it 48 hours. With our final ultrasound showing we still had full waters, despite the fact that in that 24-hour observation period I continued gushing water, we went home feeling abandoned but still hopeful. I continued to say God is helping us because even the doctors speculated how crazy the way our break was and that there was any water left at all. They’re concluding that because I have hEDS, my tissue is too weak and that’s what caused the break.

We were sent home Sunday at 20+6. The next couple of nights, I continued to lose a lot of water and at our next ultrasound at 21+3, we got to see that there is nearly no water left. The maternal-fetal medicine consult following was a lot easier than the last doctors but it still was full of doom and gloom. But we did finally get a doctor that supported us doing what was best for our family.

So far, I have been sticking to bed rest, pushing an incredible amount of water (and I’m a water drinker), and trying to eat things to help Eliyah grow ahead of schedule. Every ounce helps. Friends everywhere are praying for us and many who go to church have their churches praying for us as well.

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, I am among them.”

Matthew 18:20

We got to host friends from Bible study; they came to our home and prayed over us and it helped me so incredibly much on a day where my faith felt like it was wavering.

I have never felt so incredibly loved and full of hope and faith and also never so helpless in my life. I cry every day, many times a day. In sadness, in frustration, in anger, in being lost, in hope, in gratitude, in warmth, and when I get those random moments when you know God is touching you and everything in you heightens and you feel cold and warm all at once…

I am trying so desperately to “stay positive” and to remain hopeful. I’m reading anything and everything to retain/regain hope, to prepare myself for all the things that can happen. I’m looking at pictures of babies born and alive at every day that matches where I’m at in pregnancy. Our condition is called PPROM. It is a critical high-risk pregnancy. In other states, in pro-life states, babies are surviving. And some are thriving with normal healthy bodies and minimal to no complications. There is complete hope that she can do this! We just have to make it to the stage our state will help us. I keep praying for a doctor just ambitious and heart-filled enough to help us no matter when the time is that she comes. Someone for God to work through.

Here are a few passages that have been helping me through this brokenness… promises from God that I pray to Him He holds in His will for her, for our family.

Ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened for you.

Matthew 7:7

Casting all your worries on Him, because He cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing you will receive.

Matthew 21:22

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Philippians 4:13

Cast your burden on the Lord and He will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 55:22

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

2 Timothy 1:7

Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:13

But as for me, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Micah 7:7