Jan. 7, 2025

We are the Hansons Anailyn's Birth

We are the Hansons Anailyn's Birth
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This episode of We Are The Hansons will recount the emotional and unforgettable story of Anailyns birth. As part of We Are The Hansons, this episode dives into the challenges, surprises, and triumphs of her arrival. We will share the raw emotions of finding out about her unexpected early arrival., the whirlwind three moths before her due date, and the experience of nacigating the NICU journey. Listeners will hear about the strength, faith, and resilience it took to face the unexpected, as the lessons learned along the way. This episode highlights the power of family support, the bond of parenthood, and the beauty that can emerge even from chaos. It will serve as both a heartfelt reflection and an inspiring message to others who have faced or are facing similar challenges.

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Welcome back to We are the Hansons. I'm my Hanson,

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and today we're diving into one of the most shocking

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and emotional chapters of our family journey, finding out I

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was pregnant with our last baby only three months before

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my water broke three months early. This is a story

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we've been hesitant but excited to share because it was

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a roller coaster emotionally, physically, and mentally. It taught us

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a lot about resilience and faith. It was a completely

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normal day, or so I thought. I hadn't been feeling

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myself for a while, but been raising a large group

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of kids, running a household, and life in general. I

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just chalked it up as being tired and getting sick.

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I got into our garden tub at our home just

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to relax after dinner one night, and when I stood

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up to get out, I was pouring blood. I yelled

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for my husband, Jeremy, and when he came in and

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saw the mess, he said, Maya, you need to go

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to the er. He helped me get out of the

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garden tub. I was pretty scared. I definitely was scared

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out of my mind. We got ready, we got in

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the car, we went to the er and I walked

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in and I told him that I was bleeding profusely.

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They took me back right away, and the doctor came

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in and he asked me, you know, he said, Maya,

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is there any chance you could be pregnant? And at

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that point I was like, no, there's no way. He said, well,

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we're going to do a blood test stuff and run

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some tests, and we're gonna take a urine sample and

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we're going to do a pregnancy test and see what's

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going on. So he left them. The nurses came in.

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They did my vitals and put the blood pressure cuff

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on and all that fun stuff came in and they

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had me go into the bathroom and peeing in this

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little cup and I came out and I set it

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on the counter. I waited. He said it shouldn't take

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very long to come back. So about fifteen twenty minutes later,

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I'm sitting there and the nurses came in and the doctor,

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and the doctor said, well, you're urine test came back

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that you were not pregnant. He said, but because of

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the way that you're bleeding, I'm going to have to

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have ultrasound come down and do an ultrasound to see

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where what's happening. So I sat there and I waited

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for ultrasound, and finally ultrasound tech came in and he

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said that they were going to do an ultrasound to

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see what's going on. And I was laying there and

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he did an ultrasound and he said, well, Maya, He said,

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your uterus has a major hemorrhage. He said, but I'm

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also detecting a heartbeat, and I was like, what, you know.

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I was in complete shock because you know, I wasn't

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expecting to be having another baby. He said, you're pregnant,

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and me and Jeremy looked at each other and I

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started crying. I was like, there is no way possible

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that I could be pregnant with another baby. You know,

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I had a baby at home and now I'm having

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another baby. You know, it was it was a big

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shock to me. He said he was going to go

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tell the doctor, and the doctor would be in shortly.

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He told me that my uterus was massively twisted and

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jinked up. Well, the doctor had come in and he

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told me the same thing. He said, Maya, your uterus

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is very messed up and twisted. You are pregnant. But

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don't expect this baby to live. My heart sank. I mean,

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that is some of the worst news you could hear

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a doctor tell you is your baby probably ain't gonna

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make it because my hemorrhage was so bad and how

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bad my uterus was. So they tried to convince me

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to have an abortion. That was just out of the

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question for me. I said, absolutely not, and they kept

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pushing him. Finally I got so mad. I just started

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screaming and cussing them, telling them, no, no, I'm not

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doing it. It's not happening. It's out of the question.

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So you guys can stop right there. Well, he told

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me to schedule with a baby doctor, and so they

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sent me on my way. He told me to take

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it easy and we left the hospital and me being

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who I am, I'm bawling my eyes out because I'm

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going to have a baby and my baby may not

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make it. It's just something as a mother when you

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find out you're pregnant. They're trying to tell you your

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baby ain't going to make it. I mean, that is horrible,

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and then try to push you into having an abortion.

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I don't think so it wasn't happening. So we didn't

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know that this pregnancy was going to be different. I

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just kept going to my regular checkups and everything seemed fine.

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Until one day, yes, three months after finding out I

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was pregnant, I was at home. We were hanging out,

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we were going to cook out and all that fun stuff,

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and I said, I told Jeremy. I said, I just

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want my pants, and Jeremy said, well, you know, that's

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pretty normal for pregnant women. You know, we didn't think

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anything of it. I ran in, jumped in the shower,

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got cleaned up, put new clothes on, told Jeremy that

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I was going to run to Walmart, but if it

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continued to happen, that I was going to have to

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go on and get checked out. Because at this point,

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every little thing that I did, if anything happened, I

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was always cautious, like, oh is this it is this

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the end? You know? I was very scared, so every

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little thing, I was always panicking. So I got cleaned up,

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told Jeremy that I was going to run to Walmart quick,

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got all the kids that wanted to go to Walmart

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in the car, and we get going to Walmart. And

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we get to the Walmart parking lot and I park

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and I go to get out of the vehicle. I

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put one foot out and all of a sudden, I

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just I thought I ped myself again. It was all

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over and I was like, that's not normal. That was

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a lot of fluid. So I told the kids. You know,

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mind you, none of the kids knew. We didn't tell

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anybody that I was pregnant, because, for one, I didn't

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want the heartbreak if we ended up losing our baby,

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so nobody knew that I was going to have a baby.

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I said, all right, kids, get back in the car.

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I got to go home, and they were like why,

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why why. I told them that I beed myself and

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I needed to go change. I was not walking around

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Walmart soaked. So we all got back in the car

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and we went back home, and I went out to

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Jeremy's shop and I said, Jeremy, it happened again. I'm

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going to get cleaned up and I'm going to go

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to the hospital and get checked. Because at this point

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I was like, well, maybe I just lost my baby.

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You know, I had no idea what was happening. One,

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I've never had a water on any of my children,

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and I've I've had five before this one. I never

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had a water break. The hospitals always had to break

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my water, so I didn't know what it was like

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for a water to break on its own. So I

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was scared. Get everybody in the house. I go and

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jump in the shower again, get cleaned up, and I

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called our oldest daughter McKenna, into the bathroom and I said,

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I have to go to the hospital because I'm pregnant

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and I think my water just broke. And she's like, what,

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your water just broke? And we didn't even know about this,

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like what is going on. Morgan finds out that we're

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going to the er and she's like, I want to go.

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Maddy's like I want to go. I mean, we had

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our house full. All the boys were there, all the

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little ones were there, so Jeremy had a handful of

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children there, and I was like, well, I'll take these

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guys the girls. We'll just go and see what's going

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to happen. So I loaded everybody up, I stuffed a

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towel in my pants, and off to the er we went.

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When we got to the er, they told us that

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we had to go down to the ob so I'm like, okay,

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So we walked down to the ob and I explained

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to them that I think my water just broke. I'm

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not sure, but I'm pretty sure that it broke. I

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mean there was a massive amount of fluid. So they

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take us back to this small little room and Morgan, McKenna,

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Maddie and Torn Torren was in our car seat. She

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was just little. We're all sitting in the room and

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the lady comes in and she said, can I have

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that rag that you had in your pants? I was

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like okay, So she said, I'm just going to test

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it to see if it's amniotic fluid. So she walks

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out of the room and about two minutes later comes

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back in and she said, Maya, your water did break,

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but because you are so early, we're going to have

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to transport you to a bigger hospital. And I was like, well,

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can I go home and get my husband and then

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we can go to the bigger hospital. She's like no,

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We're having an ambulance come and pick you up and

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taking you I'm like, oh great. She told the kids

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that they had to leave the room because because they

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had to prep me for the ambulance. So McKenna, she

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didn't have a driver's license, she just had her tempts,

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and I said, McKenna, you're going to have to drive

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the girls home and let Jeremy have the vehicle so

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that he can meet me at the hospital in Springfield.

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So Kenna gets the girls and she gets them all ready,

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and I told them I love them, and drive safe

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and to let me know when they make it home.

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They got me prep. Next thing I know, the ambulance

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was there to pick me up. They got me loaded

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in the ambulance and the driver from the ambulance talked

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to me and he said, Maya, if you feel like

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you got to push or you're having really bad contractions

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and whatever, you need to let this lady that's going

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to be riding in the back with, you know, because

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I'll have to pull this ambulance over and we'll have

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to deliver a baby on the side of the road.

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And I'm in panic mode because I'm like, oh, oh, geez,

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what if I have a baby in the ambulance, you know.

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I mean, I guess it's a good place to have

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a baby instead of in your vehicle, but still it

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was scary. We got head into Springfield and they told

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me it was going to be a loud ride because

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because it was an emergency, they had to run the

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sirens and the lights the whole ride. It was definitely

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a loud ride. My husband had I had called and

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I let him know that we were heading to Cox

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Hospital in Springfield and to meet us there. I hung

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up with him and my phone started blowing up. My

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mom my, sisters, everybody was ringing my phone off the

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hook wall. I didn't answer. I was trying to save

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my battery life so I could keep in touch with

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Jeremy so he knew where I was. Well. Jeremy had

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reached out to Facebook and posted asking for prayers for me.

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Nobody knew I was pregnant, so everyone was like freaking out,

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like what's happening with Maya. I talked to Jeremy again.

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He said, everybody knows. I told everybody that you were

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having a baby, because after I posted that, my phone

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was blown up and they all needed to know we

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needed the prayers. So I understood where he was coming from.

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It was just overwhelming. I was scared. Yes, So just

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three months after finding out I was pregnant, my water

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broke and my heart was sinking. I was so freaked

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out because here I'm just six months pregnant. My water breaks,

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and now what what is going to happen to my baby? So,

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needless to say, we get to the hospital, They get

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me unloaded, get me in labor and delivery, and the

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nurse came in and she talked to me, and they

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got me all hooked up tyvs and I'm trying to

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figure out where Jeremy is because now it's been over

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an hour and my husband's still ain't there. Finally got

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a hold of him. He had no idea where I was,

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because when he got there, he's like, well, my wife

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just came in in the ambulance. I'm trying to find her.

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She's going to have a baby. Her water broke. They

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could not find me because I hadn't gotten into the

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system yet. It was a little over an hour, probably

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about an hour and a half before I finally seen Jeremy,

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and they got me hooked up to monitors and all

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that jazz. Then pretty much stopped my labor, is what

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they did, because they didn't want me to have this

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baby that soon. They ended up moving me to the

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Picque the next day. The doctor came in, Jeremy was

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there with me, and they told me that I was

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going to be bedridden for a few days. And Jeremy

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questioned them and said, well, don't you have to get

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this baby out within twenty four to forty eight hours

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after a water breaks before there's infection or complications. And

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the doctor literally looked at him and said, are you crazy.

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We got to keep that baby in as long as

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we can because of the lungs and everything has to

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be strong enough to survive out here. We both thought

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it was weird, but they're professionals. They're supposed to know.

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Needless to say, I was in there for sixteen days.

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In the pic you, every day that I was there,

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I started feeling more and more sick. Two days before

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I ended up having my little girl. I kept telling

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the nurses that I was feeling really sick. Something wasn't right.

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They just kept saying, Oh, it's just because you're getting

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close to delivery to have your baby, and blah blah blah.

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I'm telling you, mothers, no, it's our instinct. There was

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something not right. So I demanded that I get an ultrasound.

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That day I was supposed to have an ultrasound, and

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the nurse came in and she said, your ultrasound was canceled.

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We're going to put you on the monitors and just

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keep monitoring it. Well. On the sixteenth day, I couldn't eat.

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I was not feeling good at all. I ordered breakfast.

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The nurse came in. Now, mind you, I was only

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getting put on the monitors two times a day in

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the morning and once that night. That was it. When

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the nurse came in that morning, I told her that

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I couldn't eat. I just wasn't feeling good. And she said, well,

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we're going to leave your tray and you can pick

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at it, you know, while you're listening to the monitors

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and everything. And I was like, okay. I drank my juice.

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I had apple juice, I believe a little while later

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after I put on the monitors, the nurse came in

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and she said, Maya, can you drink a cup of

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orange juice for me? And I was like, well, that's weird,

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because why would she ask me. I just drank apple juice.

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So but I did. I drank a cup of orange juice,

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and she had me kind of rolled to my right side,

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and she moved the monitors around and she leaves the

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room and comes back in and said, ultrasound is going

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to come and do an ultrasound because your baby's not

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doing good on the monitors. And I was like, hmm, well.

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I was like, well, what do you mean. I've only

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been telling you guys, I've been sick. I'm not feeling good.

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And she's like, well, ultrasound should be here and we'll

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see what's going on. It wasn't. Five minutes later ultrasound

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came in. I'm watching on the ultrasound. They put up

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red and blue and the blue is for the water

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that's in your belly, and then the red is the

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blood flow. I didn't see no blue. She was taking

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the thing on my belly and shaking it and my

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baby was just bouncing around when she'd shake my belly,

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but there was no movement, and I was like, there's

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something wrong. And she said, give me a minute, and

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she wiped off the thing that she had put the

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gel on and put it back on the computer and

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she left the room. While in the pick you it's

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glass doors for your room, and right outside those glass

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doors was the nurse's station. I heard her tell the

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nurse Hansen's baby is not doing good. She has no

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fluid left. I just started crying. I did not know

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what they did, but all I knew is my baby

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either died or she is dying. So the nurse came in,

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ultrasound came in with her and she said, Maya, the

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doctor's going to be in. Your baby is not looking good.

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I think we're going to need to do a sea section.

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I started bawling. I was so angry, and I said,

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you guys did this. I've been telling you for three

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days that I was really feeling sick, and nobody here.

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Nobody listened to me. I've been asking for an ultrasound

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for seven days and they kept canceling on me. I said,

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I know my body, and you guys should have listened

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to me. I'm the mom. And the nurse kept apologizing,

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and then in walk the doctor and he said, Maya,

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your baby is lifeless and we need to do an

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emergency sea section. So these nurses are going to get

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you prepped and we're going to take you back and

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do the sea section. And I was like, well, my

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husband's an hour away. Is he going to be able

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to make it in time to be here with me.

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I didn't want to go in that surgery room by

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myself One, I've never had surgery, so I was very scared. Two,

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my baby might be gone and I would have nobody there.

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My husband wouldn't be there to see his baby. I

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made that first phone call to my husband, balling my

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eyes out, telling him, you need to hurry up and

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get here. I'm going in for an emergency sea section

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and I'm not going in alone. He said, okay. I said,

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I'm going to call my mom just in case and

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have her come because she was only ten minutes away.

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Just in case you don't make it, she can come

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in with me. So I called my mom and I said, Mom,

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you need to get here. I'm going in for an

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emergency sea section, and I don't know if Jeremy's going

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to make it in time, because they're getting me prepped

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and ready to go back. My mom ended up making it,

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and they gave my mom a gown and everything, and

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she got all dressed and ready to go, and they said, okay,

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we'll be back to get you here shortly, and they

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took me out of the room and I'm bawling my

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eyes out because I'm so scared that my baby is

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not gonna make it, or even that I'm not gonna

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make it or both that. I was just shaking and

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crying profusely. So I get in there. They did my

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spinal tap and got me ready, and he said, okay,

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we're gonna get this started and then we'll have one

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of the nurses go get your mom and we'll be

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on the road to getting this baby out. I'm looking

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around my room, my operating room, and there are masses

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amount of people in there. They had all the nick

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you nurses, the nick You doctors, respiratory therapy, and a

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bunch of nurses in there, and I knew right then

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that something was very wrong, and I'm an emotional wreck.

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They said, okay, we're gonna go get your mom. No,

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they left, and I could hear the doctors and nurses

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chattering back and forth. I'm still at this point scared

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out of my mind. I hear the nurse say Maya,

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and I said yes, and I looked up and the

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door was behind my head. I kind of moved my

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head sideways and looked up and she said, do you

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know this person? And when I looked, it was Jeremy.

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He made it. I felt so relieved, even though I

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wanted my mom there, I also wanted Jeremy there because

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I wanted him to be there with me just in

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case one of us or both of us did not

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make it through. So they pull out my baby. I

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didn't hear any cry. I didn't hear nothing, dead silence.

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Everybody was silent in the room. I heard the one

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nick you doctor say, Hammy, the believe She called it

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the ventilator tube, but there was a different term for it,

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but it was for the ventilator. My baby was put

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on a ventilator because she was not breathing at birth.

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I was scared. I was crying, and all I could

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do is tell Jeremy go see our baby. They were

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working on her in the operating room, getting her stable

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so that they could get her out of there and

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into the NICU to work on her more. He ended

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up doing my tubligation. I seen my baby leaf. Once

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they got my baby out, they finished doing what they

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had to do, got me stitched back up. They took

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me to recovery and they said that I would be

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in recovery for two hours. And at this point I

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was freaking out because I did not get to see

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my baby. I did not know she was okay. The

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last I knew she had been intubated. Nobody kept us updated.

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We pretty much begged for answers the whole time. In

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the recovery, I was telling Jeremy, you need to go

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ask that nurse if my baby is okay. Jeremy ended

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up running back and forth because I was constant, is

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my baby okay? Finally I told the nurse when she

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came in to do my vitals and check me again,

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I said, listen, is my baby okay? She said, yep,

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she's okay. And I said, I want to go see

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my baby. And she said, well, i'll call down to

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the nick you and I will see if we can't

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push your bed in there so you can see your baby.

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I said, okay. I said, as long as I can

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see her, I want to know with my own eyes

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that my little girl is okay. So at my two

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hour mark, they said, we're gonna take you down to

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the nick you and then we'll take you up to postpartum,

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and that's pretty much what happened. They ended up pushing

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me into the nicky room. It was a very tight fit.

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I was two arms lengths away from the baby bed

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that my little girl laid in, so I didn't really

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get to see her up close and personal like I

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wanted to. I didn't get to touch her. The nurse

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was working on her when we went into the NIKO

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and they told me that she was three pounds six

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ounces at birth. She was tiny, so tiny, And I

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know that other babies there are smaller babies out there,

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but to me, she was so little. After they took

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me out of the NIKEO, they told me when I

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got to postpartum, anytime I wanted to go down and

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see her, I could. I just had to wait until

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they got the catheter out, wait for the numbing stuff

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to wear off. Well. Needless to say, I didn't get

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to see her after that until the next day because

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by the time the numbing stuff wore off and I

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was able to get up and walk around so that

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the catheter could come out, it was already super late.

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They didn't have enough nurses to get me down there

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to see my baby. So right away the next morning

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I asked if I could go down and one of

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the nurses took me down there to see her in

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a wheelchair, and I spent about an hour and a

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half down there with her. I prayed. I felt like

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I had prayed every two minutes. I've never prayed so

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much in my life. As a parent, you don't realize,

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I mean, you pray when bad things happen or you

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need prayer, but when something like this happened, I would

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catch myself praying every two minutes. It seemed like I

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just I wanted relief. I wanted to know that my

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baby was going to pull through this. Well, the next

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day when we went down to see her, Jeremy had

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came and we were down there visiting and the nic

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YOU doctor had came in and she had told me

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that my baby had a blood infection and that she

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also contracted spinal meningitis. The blood infection that they were

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treating her for was for E Coli, but she didn't

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have a coali. She had a blood infection called introbacter,

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and the CDC was part of her diagnosis. They could

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not figure it out, and they finally figured out that

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it was not E coli, that it was introbacter in

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the blood, and so she needed a lot of blood transfusions.

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And this all stemmed from medical negligence. This stemmed from

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the doctors leaving me with a broken water for all

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of that time, and my baby was dying because she

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contracted an infection from not having any amniotic fluid in

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there to live in. And I was so angry that

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they let this happen them doctors should have known better.

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The one nick you doctor that called me after I

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got released from the hospital at forty eight hours and

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I went down to see her before me and Jeremy left.

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On our way home, I got a phone call and

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it was a doctor from Saint Louis. She said that

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she was going to be taking over Anna, she would

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take great care of her, and I asked her, I said,

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is this from not having any fluid and she said yes,

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it's very common, and I was like, I've never heard

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of such thing. I've always thought forty eight hours was

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the max to go with a broken water. They left

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me for sixteen days. She said, they probably should have

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just given you a steroid shot and let you deliver

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instead of waiting, because that would have strengthened her lungs

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enough that she could have survived. And it just infuriated

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me even more hearing that, because this doctor came from

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children's hospital and she knew exactly what she was doing,

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so I really felt safe with her taking care of

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Anna because she knew exactly what she was talking about.

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But needless to say, Anna contracted that blood infection. Then

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she had spinal meningitis, and she had a grade four

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brain bleed from the meningitis. Then we went home, took

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a shower, eight I ended up going back up and

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I got here with more bad news. My little Anna

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had fluid sitting on the brain because the medicines that

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they were giving me, the proteins, plugged her ventricles, so

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the brain fluid that washes and keeps our brain moist,

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was sitting on her brain and had nowhere to drin.

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So they had a neurologist coming in sticking a needle

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in the top of her head where the soft spot

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is and sucking that fluid out just so that my

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baby didn't turn into a vegetable. Because that fluid just

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sitting there and not washing off the brain and going

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down back throughout your body, it could have caused my

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little girl to have major brain problems and she would

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have been a vegetable. So we went through that tapping

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of the brain fluid for several weeks before they had

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a neurologist that finally would step in and take on

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the surgery because they wanted may Anna, the neurologists that

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they've tried to get to do the surgery, to put

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a shunt in. They wanted her to be at four pounds.

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She wasn't gaining enough weight to hit four pounds. It

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was taking too long, and they were having to tap

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and tap and tap every day, multiple times a day

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to keep that brain fluid off the brain just from

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sitting there so it didn't destroy her brain. Finally, I'm

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on my way home one night and I had the

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hospital called. I answered and he said, Maya, this is

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doctor Mace. I am the neurologist that's been tapping your

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little girl, and I want to offer you this. He said,

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I have never put a shunt in a baby that

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little before, but if you let me do it, this

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will be relief on her, and she needs relief now.

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And I said, give me five minutes. I'm going to

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call my husband quick and I'll call you right back.

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So I called Jeremy, and Jeremy I told him what

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doctor Mace had said, and I said, I'm searching him

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up on Google as I'm driving. I should not be

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searching while i'm driving but I am, because he needed

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to know if I was going to let him do

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this surgery to relief my little girl. I wanted to

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make sure because now they're going into the brain. I

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wanted to make sure that he was a good doctor.

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I didn't want him to do anything and destroy my

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little girl. So at this point, Jeremy says, well, she

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needs it. We need to let him try. Otherwise we're

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going to be in Saint Louis. I had other kids

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at home, so it was tough. We struggled. Thank god,

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my sister in laws came and my mother in law came.

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Because we didn't have help. It was them. They showed

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up for us. So I called him back and I said,

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we're going to let you do it. I read his reviews.

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He had great reviews and he was rated really high,

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so we're going to let you do it. And he said, okay,

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I'm going to plan the surgery. We're going to do

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it this week. And I said okay. He said, I

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will call you back as soon as we get the

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surgery scheduled. So they called me back and he said,

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we're going to start surgery at six am. She's gonna

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probably go back around five point thirty and I said okay,

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so he said make sure you're here. Well, we had

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gotten to the hospital and we were outside waiting for

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the phone call that they were done with surgery. Doctor

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Mace called and he said, Maya, are you here and

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I said, yes, I'm here, I'm outside and he said, well,

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you want to meet me in the nick you and

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Anna's room and we'll talk. So I ended up meeting

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him there and he went over everything. He showed us

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my little girl's surgery marks and all that. It was heartbreaking.

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It was heartbreaking. They ended up having to put her

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back on the ventilator during surgery because she was not

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in good shape at all. That was pretty hard to

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see because who wants to see their little girl or

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any baby on a ventilator. It's rough. I knew at

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that point that my little girl was gonna be okay once,

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you know, being in that room. The nurse told me

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we had wonderful nurses up there, and she told me,

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your baby is gonna pull through. I had my pastor

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and his wife come up and we prayed and just

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the relief, and I can tell you I never ever

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want to go through something like that again. That is

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the worst, and while this journey wasn't easy, it was

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worth every tear, prayer and sleepless night because I'm telling

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you I did not sleep very good at all because

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I prayed and prayed every two minutes. And if people

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ever tell you prayer doesn't work, prayer does work. My

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baby ended up getting taken off the ventilator while we

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were there and they monitored her. She was doing really

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good after surgery. I'm going to tell you, miracles do happen.

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Miracles do happen. I'm going to leave this here for

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