[Magdalen] Baby Prayers

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 7/3/15 8:17 PM, Marilyn Cepeda wrote:
> My daughter just had her first baby...a little girl, Katelyn. She was born
> in a rush and seemed fine but did not nurse well.
> At home, after the nurse suggested trying a bit of formula to get her
> started she had some kind of episode where she just went totally limp.
> We rushed her to the ER. She was fine but kept for observation overbite and
> discharged. She is eating fine, but at one week has not started to gain her
> weight back. The doc saw today and will see again in one week to keep close
> eye on her til weight gain is there.
>
> My anxieties are sky high over this little one and her parents.......I
> really need to find some calm.
>
> Prayers requested mostly for this little one to prosper and this grandma to
> calm down!

Prayers rising!

My older granddaughter was a meconium birth, with seriously messed-up 
lungs, and spent a few days in the NICU with pneumonia in an isolette on 
oxygen.  Under those circumstances, she and her mother didn't properly 
bond for breast-feeding (which my daughter had planned to do), though 
she did get her colostrum and early breast milk from a pump and a 
bottle.  But then her mother dried up because of the difficult 
circumstances.  And then they discovered that the baby was sensitive to 
any sort of milk protein, including soy milk.  She spent her infancy on 
an extremely expensive medical formula.  Whether or not the milk 
sensitivity was a result of the birth circumstances, I don't know, but 
her younger sister had neither problem.  She did eventually grow out of 
the dairy problem, but it took a long time, until she was in school. 
Now she's totally normal (other than being abnormally bright, and 
abnormally stubborn).  A rocky start can work out just fine.


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Sibyl Smirl
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