The Prayer chain

I have an urgent request for prayers. On Friday last week a member of our church who was 33 weeks pregnant started to have light contractions and the baby was not moving. She was headed to the hospital anyway to get her firstborn child's allergy shots and so she went to see her dr.

As they checked her, they decided to admit her to the hospital because the contractions were going full strength. They gave her all the medications to slow down/stop the contractions. When it was determined that they were not going to stop they gave her very detailed sonogram because the nurse could not get the regular sonogram to work so the only specialist they have was there and gave her a detailed sonogram. Upon finishing it was determined that they baby had a large amount of fluid. Maybe even an inch of fluid between her skin and skull!

The did an emergency c-section and a baby girl was born. Not sure what was going on and why this was happening to the baby. They wisked her off to the NICU. Her birth weight was over 9 pounds! Remember she was 6 week premie! The doctors told the parents that because they didn't know why this happened to her, they were not sure how they were going to treat her. The onset determines the treatment. She did try to cry when born which was a good sign but she was a sick little baby. The next few hours were going to be touch and go.

The prayers went out and up. The Lord is good. She has survived to today and she has lost over 3 pounds of fluid!!! She is intabated (sp?) and has a chest tube to drain off more fluid. The fluid is gone from her internally but not from under the skin. Her eyes are swollen shut but she is doing well.

The doctors have given her status as stable BUT she is still at risk. She is responding to stimuli and they have cut back some on the ventilator and she is able to keep up on her own and take up that slack!

God is amazing! This little baby is being lifted up and she is getting better and better! Our whole church is on prayer vigil for her.

Please do the same. Because this is on the WWW, I am not giong to tell you the parents name and the baby's name. God knows who they are. IF you go to my church then you know who they are!

Just please pray! Pray for full recovery! Pray for comfort for the parents. Pray for the doctors and nurses who are giving this precious life around the clock care.

The doctors can't tell them anything about a future for her becuase they are trying to figure out what is going on themselves. I will tell you though that the military has only 3 pediatric kidney specialists and one of them "just happened" to be there this weekend and has stayed on to help out. He has determined that it is not her kidneys!!! Isn't God wonderful!!!!

Thank you! I will update as I get information!