Greg's sister, Amy, developed preeclampsia quickly and badly. Friday she had gone into urgent care because of chest pain and a fever and as soon as they checked her blood pressure, they had her go to the ER. Dale had received a text from daddy Andrew saying they were going to the ER because of said symptoms. I figured they were wondering about preeclampsia and were checking on that or would keep her for monitoring but we had no idea how bad her symptoms were. Shortly thereafter we got the text that baby would be born via csection within the next half-hour. WHOA! What a turn of events! We had only been in Bismarck a little over 24 hours and hadn't even unpacked! We didn't even get the cute sister baby belly photo during our short time together on Thursday!
Praise God for modern medicine so that both baby and Amy are going to be okay. Poor Amy was in really rough shape after all her body went through with the preeclampsia and the emergency csection. The only "cure" for preeclampsia is delivery so we praise God she was far enough along that baby will be just fine after some TLC in the NICU. Amy didn't even get to meet baby girl until Sunday because she's still been recovering but Andrew has spent lots of time near his daughter's side.
We are so, so grateful to God that they are both going to be okay. How she came into the world is not the ideal but we know, in part to our Maelee, that just them alive is gift enough. Her middle name remembers our girl, too, so what a precious gift to us. We love this little girl (we got to see her Sunday) and are so excited to get to hold her someday soon!
Alexia Maelee Brown! 5lbs, 10ozs, 19 inches!
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| AMB - same initials as her momma! |
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| Uncle Greg happily peeking in! |
-Heather
1 comment:
Awww, she's adorable!
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