Hi, welcome, I hope that we can be helpful to you in this time of great stress and anguish. I think that from the sound of things that your sister is very ill. However, her baby has been safely delivered and is doing reasonably well. This is good because it allows your sister's physicians to focus e...

Dang, technology is AMAZING, it has been almost 8.5 years since I saw my last child on ultrasound (pretty much same gestational age) and she didn't look like that.... Skelitor was the best that we could come up with. Your baby is soooo cute! I'm no expert,.. clearly... but until someone who knows be...

Sam, just wanted to let you know that you and Jake have been in my thoughts. The nearly matching birth dates always keep you guys close to my heart.

Hi Lisa, welcome to the forums. There are plenty of women here who will understand where you are coming from. I share some of your past experiences, early miscarriages with no explanation. By the time I became pregnant with Lucy, I was well familiar with the insecurities of early pregnancy and the e...

You"ll get there in the end, it just may take you longer than you expect. The aren't misleading you when they tell you that you are most likely to recover completely. I too had HELLP syndrome with my Lucy (clearly we have some karmic link) and I remember how lousy I felt even as I healed. Even when ...

You are in a very tough spot and I can only imagine how difficult it is for you and your husband right now. I would just suggest that you remember that you may need to think in the same kind of terms as the airlines do when they tell you that in "the event of a loss of oxygen that you apply your own...

I am so sorry that this happened, Rosalinda. You will be in my thoughts.

Jean, my understanding is that NEC is a serious complication of premature newborns that occurs when their intestinal flora (aka the bacteria that usually live in the gut) trigger an inflammatory response that damages their gut quite severely. Sometimes this even results in leakage to the peritoneal ...

Worse, AMA is 35 on EDD, so you can technically be in the zone at 34... I was.

What a marathon for you! The force of the Google is very strong and I'm glad it brought you to us! When I did the same thing after I had HELLP all I found were a few scientific articles....and me, thinly disguised as case conference notes! (this was pre-HIPPA and would never happen now). I found the...