[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Grace Cangialosi]

My granddaughter Meredith was admitted to UVa Medical Center yesterday to wait out the last two or three weeks of her pregnancy. She has known oofor awhile that it’s high risk, and she and the doctors have been trying to decide the best course of action—well, the doctors have known, but she and her husband didn’t want to do it. Finally her doctors at our community hospital refused to treat her anymore and said sh’d have to go to UVa. She’s at about 31 weeks now, and they’ve scheduled a C-section for 34 weeks. The problem is that the baby’s cord, with his main blood vessels, is lying across her cervix, so a normal delivery would be too dangerous. But as the baby gets bigger—and he’s already 4-5 lbs.— the risk of a rupture increases. That’s why they want her in the hospital now. She and her husband were resisting that, and we all breathed a sigh of relief when they changed their minds.
This has a certain deja vu quality, as some of you will understand, because my daughter was hospitalized with the twins at 25 weeks in the same hospital, though for a different reason. This time the baby is already much bigger.
Sorry this is so long, but I figured if I just asked for prayer, you’d want to know why.
Besides, you prayed the twins into this world! They’re now 16-1/2 and have just returned from a two-week study trip to Spain! Who would have thought??!

Thanks,
Grace