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I found out that my baby boy would be fighting CDH in novemver 2009, they first told me they thought it was a hernia because the heart was slightly to the right but they were not sure if it was just one picture because all the others looked fine. Then they told me at the next visit it was a ccam or lung cyst, I was so happy it wasnt the cdh that I had looked up the week before and I cried tears of joy, then I went for third ultrasound and they said they were leaing toward CDH and I had an amnio ...

I hate it when the last post is an urgent request for prayer and then silence on a blog .... please be okay!!!! I am praying for baby Averi ... she has come so far! It hurts my heart!!!

Well, despite all my careful planning (Derek and I actually calculated it and did not start trying until her birthday would be February at he earliest), Dakota's birthday is on Christmas Day, so her birthday celebration got folded into the Christmas celbration. Nevertheless, it was a very special day. I am so grateful that we are where we are and that we have my little girl to celebrate with. She is so cute! She did not really open the presents but she liked to play with them once they were ...

Dakota will be one year old on Christmas Day! I always wished I did a blog, so I thought I would start by posting her story in detail:
When I found out that my baby girl Dakota had Right-sided CDH (at 29 weeks), the first thing my OB said is that you will not be having Dakota here in Naples, Florida. I live in Marco Island, Florida where there is no hospital; the hospital in Naples, Florida is a 50 minute drive, and even that hospital has only one neonatologist and no level III NICU-no ECMO ...

I hate H1N1; I hate it, hate it, hate it! It's a beast; it's a mystery; it's a threat to my family!