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Hello everyone! My name is Danielle Mason. I am a mom of a now heavenly angel. Her name is Isabelle May Mason. She was born on Nov. 29, 2007 and died Nov. 29, 2007. She was 2 and 1/2 hours old. She was diagnosed with CDH at 20 weeks. She had no other problems at all. Her heart was on the right side of her chest and had virtually no lungs. Yet she still managed to breath basically on her own for all that time. I also have 3 other children. None of which had CDH. My oldest is 7 his name is Cody. My ...

i dint know my baby was going to be born with cdh i had a good pregnancy when he was born bless him his dad said he got hiccups and it was my little boy fighting to breathe we got the midwife she pushed the ememegency button then every one came to bring him back to life! he survived the night then we got to see him before he got moved to leeds hospital(uk)it was a terribble time for us cos we av 3 other children we spent all time at leeds hopeing he would be ok he pulled through his op got off ...

yesterday mekhaai's surgeon said to turn the feeding tube off and up his oral feeds but the nurse wasnt comfortable so we are doing 25 ml every 3 hours and up that every 6 hours by 5ml more and whatever he doesnt take in 10 minutes will go into his tube, but he sucked it all down in 5 minutes and passed out to sleep, mamma's little piggy. I went to the ER last night because my head hurt really bad on one side and my pulse was 48 and I just felt funny, but the doctor said my iron levels were low ...

day 9 was great, extubated!!! day 10 chest tube is taken out, ng tube out and feeding tube in, mekhaai has his first meal of breast milk, lets hope he tolerates it well, they will be doing by tube and by mouth just to see how he does. I get to hold him all day If I want now, the nurses he has are great, he has had the same nurse for a while now and she was here 12 hours yesterday and then had to stay another five due to a staffing mix up, then she back 7 hours later to do her next regular shift, ...

Yesterday and today were good days, the baby recovered well from his surgery and the scare we had with the lung, I guess they nicked it during surgery and then he was on high pressures after surgery and that is what caused the air to leak out into his chest area. It seems to be healing nicely and they have turned the drain tube off that is in his chest and are just watching it, the xray showed no signs of air building back up, so that is good news. He is now on 24% oxygen and we breathe 21%, they ...