One Year Old

I feel so humble, lucky and blessed to have spent this last year with Jonah. When my membranes ruptured at 19 weeks I was given awful statistic and possible case scenarios. I was recently reading through some medical websites that I had turned to. You can only imagine the despair that reading these things gave me......

before 24 weeks
The majority of patients will deliver within one week when preterm PROM occurs before 24 weeks' gestation, with an average latency period of six days. Many infants who are delivered after previable rupture of the fetal membranes suffer from numerous long-term problems including chronic lung disease, developmental and neurologic abnormalities, hydrocephalus, and cerebral palsy. Previable rupture of membranes also can lead to Potter's syndrome, which results in pressure deformities of the limbs and face and pulmonary hypoplasia. The incidence of this syndrome is related to the gestational age at which rupture occurs and to the level of oligohydramnios. Fifty percent of infants with rupture at 19 weeks' gestation or earlier are affected by Potter's syndrome, whereas 25 percent born at 22 weeks' and 10 percent after 26 weeks' gestation are affected. Patients should be counseled about the outcomes and benefits and risks of expectant management, which may not continue long enough to deliver a baby that will survive normally.


Now fast forward one year. Jonah is ONE YEAR OLD today! He is healthy in every way and even catching up in the growth charts already. We are so blessed (I hope to never forget that). So here is a big HIP HIP HOORAY!!! for Preemies First Birthdays!!! Today I am thinking not only of Jonah but all the preemies we met while in the various hospitals. Hoping their day is happy too. :)

The slide show is a somewhat lengthy but I just couldn't seem to condense it. A lot happens that first year!