You guys remember Stacey... smooches.. yeah ok. I don't know if she told you before about her sister Nicole being pregnant and all but yeah her sister's water broke last night um... new year's eve... new year's. I'm confused. Ok when the ball dropped in New York City she was there with her fiance and her water broke. There we go. So she was rushed to the hospital and my sister and I had gone to see her and she looked really really bad. The baby was born (on new year's day, ironic) but the baby is really really tiny and they said that because of how small he is that it's critical... crucial.. I'm messed up today something with a c. But they said he's way to small and he needs to gain some weight and they won't let her or the baby out of the hospital till then. I have to find out how much he weighs but they said that he possibly could die and that's not good. And it's messed up. Majorly. Do you know what's going on or something? Everybody's acting crazy and no one is speaking with much sense. Stace isn't in America she went to Brazil weeks ago with the older group of our church and no one's even told her yet so she has no idea what's going on. And this bites. Words of advice? Thanks
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Another one (it's like baby boom or something)
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Did her sister smoke?
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Once in a while but not all the time. She layed off when she got pregnant though.
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If she didnt lay off completely, that might the reason for the lowbirth weight http://www.marchofdimes.com/professionals/681_1153.asphttp://www.emedicine.com/ped/topic2784.htmThose links will describe lowbirthweight for ya
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thanks
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Yes, Stacey mentioned her sister's pregnancy on 6/28, when her sister's pregnancy test had just come out positive. It was an earthquake in her family.I think we have way too little information to speculate why the baby's birthweaight is low, but it sounds like the birth was fairly premature. All I can say is that hospitals can deal with that a lot better than they used to be able to.There's no way that Stacey's family can contact her?
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Well nobody is acting sane enough to find out what's going on except the dad but I'm not even sure. When we had gone to the hospital we stayed for a while but it got late so we had to leave. I guess we'll just wait till the morning to find out what's going on.I don't think they have contacted Stace yet otherwise she would have been making plans to come back, she was already upset that she might miss the baby being born. But I don't know if they spoke to her yet.
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Hopefully everything will be OK. How's the mom?
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I don't know about Nicole. She had/has a fever. After the delivery she only stayed awake for half an hour and she passed out sleeping. And they said when she woke up she was crying and stuff. So I don't know what's going on with her I hope she'll be ok.
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**Im so sorry to hear this, and without more info on the babies condition we can't make a judgement.
However i can say, that my youngest was born 6 weeks early, I had a blood condition which mean he was safer out than in, even at that early term. Anyway, he was low birth weight because he was so early, and wasn't allowed home till he had put weight on etc, i have to say its a VERY scary thing, and people don't always explain whats happening very well, so as a parent i was confused and scared and no-one could put my mind at rest.
All my babies have been in the neo-natal intensive care units, and i have seen some TINY babies, like 1 and 2 pound babies, often twins, go through crisis after crisis but pull through and go home. Im sure this will be the case with Nicoles baby.
As a mother, my world collapsed around me, and my babies where in incubators, so i couldnt' touch them, i didn't cuddle my daughter till she was nearly a month old :frowning: If she isn't able to hold her baby it will make things more difficult, make sure if she is confined to bed that someone takes pictures of the baby (most noe-natal units have polariod cameras) and she has them around the bed, its very easy to not feel an emotional attachment to a baby in this situation, and pics will help.
Anyway, babies are stronger than you think, AND, the neo-natal units are amazing, and tho it might take time, things will turn out ok........
as for Nicole, she needs support.......after giving birth your hormones are all over the place anyway, and you feel vunerable and weepy. I know exactly how she feels, and the best thing is to get the facts. Someone has to speak to someone, a nurse preferabley, doctors usually talk over you.......and get all the details on his condition, his progress, treatment etc...........even if its not good, knowing whats happening is easier to deal with, no matter how much it hurts, not knowing and the confusion and fear that goes with it, is hard to handle.
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Thanks angel. That helps alot. I just got back from the hospital not too long ago, but I'll be going back in just a few minutes. Nicole is actually doing a bit better than this morning. At around 6 in the morning the nurse found her outside the room and crying on the floor. That's really scary I don't know if she went into a shock or something. But she's actually a bit better now. Her fever went down alot to 101.9. They think that the reason for the baby's underweight is due to the fact that she might have had a blood disorder. But the baby gained an ounce and a half today. That's progress since he's almost 3 full pounds. She named her son Steven. He's so cute just very tiny. They do have him in the thing you mentioned called an incubator. Nicole is depressed for sure she didn't want to see any friends or family just a few. So I'll be going back to see her again this evening.This is like the best way to start off a new year huh?
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Excellent name for the baby. I've unsucessfully tried to convince all of my friends to use that name, which isn't used nearly enough nowadays. Names like Cooper, Tyler, Roofer, and Cabinetmaker seem to be more hip these days.The baby's weight gain is an excellent sign. Mom should recover soon.
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I knew you'd like the name lol
The baby's getting better and the weight is continuing to gain. The doctor said if it keeps going at the rate it does then they might be out by friday this week. Hopefully. But Nicole is still not looking any better and her fever is still at the same point. They're keeping her confined for when she has her... breakthroughs. It's not like it happens all the time only different times she'll just start crying or screaming some things... I really hope she'll get better. :frowning:
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Do you know whats wrong with her/
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I have no idea. I don't think it's the fever doing this to her. I think she just wants her son. Because she almost choked her fiance to death saying "he's not here, he's not here, where is he". This is making me depressed and it's not even me. Do you think it's just shock or something?
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could be. Is she happy about being pregnant and having the baby? Could be post-birth deppression, drugs could be getting to her, she could be physically exhausted and mentally exhausted from everythign thats going on around her. It deffintly doesnt sound like something good though.
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She was happy about having the baby and when she had him she fell asleep after but when she woke up and they told her the condition they both were in I think that's what sort of messed her up, and not being able to hold him. You may be right about the physical and mental exhaustion. I'm not sure, but yeah it isn't good.
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If she has a fever, she presumably has some kind of infection. I assume she's on antibiotics.
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Yeah I would think so. If it comes in a needle then yeah that must be it.Exhausted and depressed these late nights are killers.
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Could be a needle, but would probably be an IV.