After a ton of emotions, and thinking we were going to lose Owen a few times through the pregnancy, he proved to be a fighter and fought through it and came out proving medical reasoning wrong. If you don't know what happened, my wife hemorrhaged at 8 weeks along in the pregnancy. They expected her to miscarry. This was the first week of bed rest. She remained on bed rest through the rest of her 28 more weeks of pregnancy.
At 15 weeks along, her water broke. This usually brings infection to you or to the baby or even both. If infection happens, they have to take the baby out because the mother chances losing her own life if they keep the baby in. The baby cannot survive out of the womb until at least week 24, and even then they have less then a 10% chance of living. The sack which the baby grows in can heal and feel back up with fluid, but when this happens, the doctors have no explanation and it is a very rare thing to be seen. Well my wife's did heal and feel back up with fluid. It was the first time in all of her doctors career that he has seen it happen. My wife had no infection at all. Every week was something to be thankful for!
Around 18 weeks we found out Owen would be born with only one functioning kidney. Which he has now. But you can live a full and happy life with one kidney. So we were fine with that. But there were a few scares when he was in the womb. He had one artery and one vain umbilical cord, which you usually have two arteries. This sometimes is a precursor to a chromosomal abnormality, and the baby only lives a couple hours outside the womb. Luckily Owen did not have this. At 36 weeks and a few days, he decided to come! Now we have our miracle baby!
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2 comments:
He's worth all that we went through. We really are the luckiest mommy and daddy around. I'm glad I had you there by my side the whole time.
I really like the last picture here. He really is a miracle.
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