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GRACYN - USA
Born October 19, 2011 Early-onset Mother's GBS Status: Tested positive Gestational Age: 39 weeks Age Harmed: A few hours old |
Gracyn was born on October 19, 2011 and was perfect and healthy (or so we thought). A few hours after birth the nurse took her to give her a bath and my husband went with her. He came back later and told me they wanted to keep her in the nursery because she was breathing a little too fast. Next thing we know she was being put in the NICU and being intubated and on all kinds of medicine. Her health was deteriorating. The doctors weren't sure what was happening. They discharged me from the hospital 2 days later and luckily we were able to stay in a parent's room on the NICU floor. When Gracyn was 3 days old we got a call in the parent's room at 5 am. The doctor told us we needed to come down there and have a talk. Nothing is good at 5 am. When we got there he told us Gracyn needed to be transferred to another hospital while she was stable because she needed to be put on ECMO. We were devastated.
She was transferred to Children's Medical Center in Dallas. We were told they were going to call in the person that does the ECMO thing. We thought that was the end for Gracyn. They still didn't know what was going on. They thought it looked like pulmonary hypertension at one point. She had sepsis, was on a ton of different meds. At one point they had to put her on blood pressure meds because she couldn't keep it stable enough on her own. Honestly everything that happened at that time is a blur. Gracyn made a miraculous turn around and the end result was pneumonia. She was released on October 30, 2011. She is a normal, happy little girl who is full of life! While hospitalized we found out she has a congenital heart defect called atrial septal defect. She will be having open heart surgery in June.
— Caitlin Rice, USA
Caitlin distributes GBS brochures, telling people about our story.
She was transferred to Children's Medical Center in Dallas. We were told they were going to call in the person that does the ECMO thing. We thought that was the end for Gracyn. They still didn't know what was going on. They thought it looked like pulmonary hypertension at one point. She had sepsis, was on a ton of different meds. At one point they had to put her on blood pressure meds because she couldn't keep it stable enough on her own. Honestly everything that happened at that time is a blur. Gracyn made a miraculous turn around and the end result was pneumonia. She was released on October 30, 2011. She is a normal, happy little girl who is full of life! While hospitalized we found out she has a congenital heart defect called atrial septal defect. She will be having open heart surgery in June.
— Caitlin Rice, USA
Caitlin distributes GBS brochures, telling people about our story.
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To learn more about Why Membranes Should NOT Be Stripped, click HERE.
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