DaysLady
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I need prayer warriors!
It's kind of a long story- I'll do my best to sum it up.
Katelyn is 18 years old, just graduated high school last year. She does not know her biological family. The foster family that raised her, kicked her out at 18 as "they no longer receive funds from the state for keeping her, so she's old enough to get a place of her own". <- this bothers me. WHY can't people just love a child that needs to be loved? Is this not worse than the biological parents losing custody in the first place? anyways...moving on...
Katelyn moved in with her boyfriend, and got pregnant. They were due to have a baby.... a beautiful baby girl named Olivia Grace.
At one of the ultrasounds, they discovered a serious problem. Baby Olivia's intestine's were growing on the outside of her body. Her records were transferred to MUSC. Katelyn began driving down to MUSC every two weeks for her OB check ups. She would need to have the baby there so that surgery could be performed immediately to put her intestine's in place. (NOTE: I removed info about the boyfriend) Please just know Katelyn doesn't have anyone and needs any and all prayers. May God's Angels surround her.
My friend helped Katelyn then find an apartment of her own, and we have all showered her with baby gifts. She is ready for when baby Olivia comes home. The last few weeks of pregnancy, she moved to Charleston. The boyfriend has since come back into the picture (how convenient)...sorry, I just don't like him much.
Katelyn was supposed to be induced next week. the team would be ready for Olivia next week. Olivia had other plans.
Olivia was born at 8pm last night, weighing in at just over 5lbs. She had meconium in her mouth. (I probably spelled that wrong, I'm sorry)... Before they could have surgery, she had to fight the affects of the meconium. she was not doing well. she had to be put on life support. God has blessed this baby though- this morning she is off life support and breathing on her own, we will know this afternoon when they plan to do surgery.
Doctors say Olivia possibly has a mental disability from the meconium. Olivia does have liver damage, but perhaps will grow out of that. Her heart also was not beating properly. We won't know until later on down the road how all of this will affect her mental development. But we almost lost baby Olivia last night. and her mother Katelyn is all alone. The nurses gave her something to help her sleep, but it's really not helping.
We are too far away to reach her, just texting her and sending her love on facebook....and reaching out to all prayer warriors.
Specific Prayer Requests:
For Baby Olivia Grace: pray that her heart beat is strong. pray that her breathing continues to improve. pray for the hands that will be operating on her tiny body. pray for Olivia's brain to heal and that it is not damaged by the meconium.
For Katelyn: pray for comfort. pray for God to wrap his arms around her. pray for the nurses trying to care for Katelyn as well as Katelyn's baby girl.
Thank you all for reading all of that... you guys mean the world to me. Prayers work - and I appreciate every single one of them. I will update when we know what time baby Olivia's surgery will be. my friend (Allie) can't go down to be there with Katelyn until this coming weekend. Pray for her safety as well, it is a long drive and she is emotionally drained.
It's kind of a long story- I'll do my best to sum it up.
Katelyn is 18 years old, just graduated high school last year. She does not know her biological family. The foster family that raised her, kicked her out at 18 as "they no longer receive funds from the state for keeping her, so she's old enough to get a place of her own". <- this bothers me. WHY can't people just love a child that needs to be loved? Is this not worse than the biological parents losing custody in the first place? anyways...moving on...
Katelyn moved in with her boyfriend, and got pregnant. They were due to have a baby.... a beautiful baby girl named Olivia Grace.
At one of the ultrasounds, they discovered a serious problem. Baby Olivia's intestine's were growing on the outside of her body. Her records were transferred to MUSC. Katelyn began driving down to MUSC every two weeks for her OB check ups. She would need to have the baby there so that surgery could be performed immediately to put her intestine's in place. (NOTE: I removed info about the boyfriend) Please just know Katelyn doesn't have anyone and needs any and all prayers. May God's Angels surround her.
My friend helped Katelyn then find an apartment of her own, and we have all showered her with baby gifts. She is ready for when baby Olivia comes home. The last few weeks of pregnancy, she moved to Charleston. The boyfriend has since come back into the picture (how convenient)...sorry, I just don't like him much.
Katelyn was supposed to be induced next week. the team would be ready for Olivia next week. Olivia had other plans.
Olivia was born at 8pm last night, weighing in at just over 5lbs. She had meconium in her mouth. (I probably spelled that wrong, I'm sorry)... Before they could have surgery, she had to fight the affects of the meconium. she was not doing well. she had to be put on life support. God has blessed this baby though- this morning she is off life support and breathing on her own, we will know this afternoon when they plan to do surgery.
Doctors say Olivia possibly has a mental disability from the meconium. Olivia does have liver damage, but perhaps will grow out of that. Her heart also was not beating properly. We won't know until later on down the road how all of this will affect her mental development. But we almost lost baby Olivia last night. and her mother Katelyn is all alone. The nurses gave her something to help her sleep, but it's really not helping.
We are too far away to reach her, just texting her and sending her love on facebook....and reaching out to all prayer warriors.
Specific Prayer Requests:
For Baby Olivia Grace: pray that her heart beat is strong. pray that her breathing continues to improve. pray for the hands that will be operating on her tiny body. pray for Olivia's brain to heal and that it is not damaged by the meconium.
For Katelyn: pray for comfort. pray for God to wrap his arms around her. pray for the nurses trying to care for Katelyn as well as Katelyn's baby girl.
Thank you all for reading all of that... you guys mean the world to me. Prayers work - and I appreciate every single one of them. I will update when we know what time baby Olivia's surgery will be. my friend (Allie) can't go down to be there with Katelyn until this coming weekend. Pray for her safety as well, it is a long drive and she is emotionally drained.
We are all in love with this precious little girl, who is showing us all just how big of a fighter she is.