Our son, Lincoln was born at 25 weeks and 1 day on April 5, 2009. On day 11 he developed NEC. The bowel had perforated and emergency surgery was performed. The surgeons were optimistic that the amount of small intestines remaining would maybe someday allow him to be fed orally. We [...]
I gave birth to a girl at 28 wks. on July 6, 2009. She tolerated the milk I pumped until she was 2 1/2 wks. When she was taken for surgery, doctors told me there was nothing they could do. I am encouraging other moms to help bring awareness to the deadly infection(nec). [...]
I developed pre-eclampsia while I was pregnant and had been in and out of the emergency room for about 4 weeks when my doctors finally decided to deliver Kendal. Kendal was born August 14, 2009.She was so alert when she was born and was only required to be on oxygen for about an hour. She [...]
Hi all, I can’t believe how common this so called rare disease is. I had my twin boys on the 26th Oct 04 born at 25wks Thomas weighed 1lb 9oz and Matthew weighed 1lb 11oz sadly we lost matthew at 2 days old due to his prematurity he was just to small. Thomas seemed to do [...]
My twins were born in December 2008 at 31 weeks. My baby girl Phoebe weighed 2 pounds 11 and my boy Jonah weighed 3 pounds 8. Both were doing well for 5 days and then Phoebe developed NEC. We were called to the hospital and I couldnt believe how sick she looked. She was almost [...]
We underwent IVF in September 2008. After all the treatment treatment, my wife produced so many eggs and her ovary’s were so swollen that the doctor advised us to only put back one embryo and not two as they normally would in IVF. We were stunned to find out a few days later that it was a [...]