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Help with Memorial for baby Atticus

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After fighting for his life for an hour, Atticus passed away peacefully in the arms of his mother and father on February 19 at 10:27pm. We are doing a memorial in his honor and every little bit helps. We've incurred many expenses traveling several hours to his doctors every week for the last few months and I was put on strict bed rest therefore have not been able to work. We don't have the finances to give him the memorial he deserves right now, so we are asking for help to give our baby boy the best possible.  We appreciate any donation and continued prayers. Thank you!


My name is Anna and my husband, Justin, and I are expecting a baby boy on March 26, 2017. Everything had gone normally for the most part until Friday October 28, 2016. I went in for the anatomy scan of the baby and I was so excited to see my little baby and watch him moving around! That's when I got some very unexpected news. My Dr said that the baby had enlarged kidneys and had very little amniotic fluid surrounding him. I was referred to a specialist at Medical City in Dallas. On Monday October 31, 2016 it was confirmed that our baby has been diagnosed with Bilateral Multicystic Displaysia. This disease affects the kidneys, and in our baby's case it has affected both kidneys. Our baby's kidneys did not properly develop and the baby is not able to urinate. The kidneys are turning the urine that can't be released into cysts and because he can't urinate there is virtually no amniotic fluid surrounding him. Because of lack of amniotic fluid the baby's lungs cannot develop. We were given extremely small chances of our baby's survival because it affects both kidneys. We were told our baby's condition is "incompatible with life" and that our baby most likely will not survive birth, and if he does it will only be for a very short time. We were asked about terminating the pregnancy, but I can't and won't give up on our baby. If the baby does survive he will need a kidney transplant almost immediately for any chance of survival.
We are left with little choice but to ask for help, we want to give our baby the best possible chance at life, and we are expecting the worst but praying for the best. This is an extremely difficult time for us and we need all the prayers we can get. We will have more answers as the pregnancy progresses, but we do know that we will do what ever we can to help our baby. At this point we will be traveling to Dallas once a week to our specialist to do monitoring on the baby. Thank you to anyone that can help, and I will be posting updated as I get them.
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  • Kristin Nicole
    • $25 
    • 7 yrs
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Anna Foster
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Paris, TX

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