SAJ
05-20-2009, 12:13 PM
Hi all!
I'm new here and saw this thread. I'm a mom of two singleton preemies. My daughter was born at 29 weeks 4 days, my son at 32 weeks 5 days. I spent 11 weeks on bedrest with my daughter and a whopping 17 weeks on bedrest with my son. The reason for my early deliveries is unknown, but may relate to a clotting issue only recently discovered (despite the fact that I had requested clotting tests repeatedly after three miscarriages).
My daughter had an extraordinarily rough start -- the doctors lost fetal heartones before her crash delivery. My son had it a bit better (the difference 3 weeks makes!) thank goodness. We went through a lot of ups and downs while my children were in the NICU, but they are doing very well today as toddlers. My daugher will be 3 mid-summer and my son is 20 months. My daughter has her final developmental appointment this summer and we expect it will go well. As far as we can tell she has only one lasting issue from her prematurity -- lung immaturity and childhood asthma. However, we've been able to control the asthma with an inhaler and the doctors expect that once her lungs heal as she matures that she'll do very, very well. My son appears to have no lasting effects from his prematurity. Of course, with preemies you never know . . . so we take it day by day.
I cannot wait to go and read all of your stories. Hugs to all the preemies and their moms and dads out there!
Cheers,
SAJ
I'm new here and saw this thread. I'm a mom of two singleton preemies. My daughter was born at 29 weeks 4 days, my son at 32 weeks 5 days. I spent 11 weeks on bedrest with my daughter and a whopping 17 weeks on bedrest with my son. The reason for my early deliveries is unknown, but may relate to a clotting issue only recently discovered (despite the fact that I had requested clotting tests repeatedly after three miscarriages).
My daughter had an extraordinarily rough start -- the doctors lost fetal heartones before her crash delivery. My son had it a bit better (the difference 3 weeks makes!) thank goodness. We went through a lot of ups and downs while my children were in the NICU, but they are doing very well today as toddlers. My daugher will be 3 mid-summer and my son is 20 months. My daughter has her final developmental appointment this summer and we expect it will go well. As far as we can tell she has only one lasting issue from her prematurity -- lung immaturity and childhood asthma. However, we've been able to control the asthma with an inhaler and the doctors expect that once her lungs heal as she matures that she'll do very, very well. My son appears to have no lasting effects from his prematurity. Of course, with preemies you never know . . . so we take it day by day.
I cannot wait to go and read all of your stories. Hugs to all the preemies and their moms and dads out there!
Cheers,
SAJ