CDH AWARENESS
Little Miss Miraculous - Meet Emily Rose, the miracle baby that we all prayed for. Before this princess fought to make her mark in the world, Lauren had endured a heart wrenching miscarriage which took two long years of fertility treatment to conceive. However, five months later, she was pregnant again but this time with double the blessing in identical twins!
Sadly, Lauren ended up losing one of the twins at 15 weeks. Concerns then arose over Emily's well-being, due to having shared a placenta with her twin. When one twin dies, all the blood flow is diverted to that twin in an effort to save it, therefore depriving the other baby.
As as this concern at 24 weeks along, Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) was found on an ultrasound. CDH is a birth defect of the diaphragm and is both life-threatning and a major cause of death in infants. Survival chances are low and after birth, the baby will usually be immediately placed on a ventilator.
However, on the morning of the 3rd of January 2018 in a labour that went from **3cm to being born in 21 minutes** from start to finish, with no time for pain relief, little Emily Rose Service entered the world! She had NO complications post-birth and no surgery was required as the hernia had shown to have closed all on its own!
"Post birth, the x-ray showed that although there was some evidence of weakness remaining in her diaphragm, the hernia appeared to have healed itself! It really is a miracle to us that this could happen, but here she is!" - Lauren (Emily's mama).
Emily is a little miracle baby today and she made it past her 1st birthday and is happy, healthy and busy being doted on by her big brother + Furbabies - she also has another sibling on the way!!
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