[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Ann Markle]

My mother used to tell of some baby in our family -- can't remember who,
who was kept in the oven for a time to keep them warm, because they were so
early and so small.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking primarily of the separation factor. My friend Christie's son
> Aiden was born at about 30 weeks and was a NICU baby for awhile. He weighed
> 3 lbs. and something at birth. Some of you may recall praying for him 6
> years ago. He is now a great big kid, tallest in his class, who is among
> other things following his mother as a swimmer. He's been winning blue
> ribbons all summer in his age group. But Christie regrets the time he was
> in NICU when he was separated from her.
>
> My uncle John, born in 1908, was also early and very small. Neither he nor
> his mother was expected to live, but they both pulled through. I remember
> hearing tales of the harrowing horse-drawn ambulance ride through the
> streets of St. Louis, and of how little John was wrapped in layers of
> flannel and cotton batting, with a cotton batting cap, and placed in a
> shoebox surrounded by hot bricks to keep him warm. They didn't have oxygen
> then, of course. Somehow he made it, though, and grew up to be my favorite
> uncle, the one who told us stories and took us fishing and was amazingly
> patient with all children.
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 9:17 AM, Michael Bishop <rev at michaelbishop.name>
> wrote:
>
> > The weight is not that low! I was born about 6 weeks early and was so
> > small that I was not weighed at birth. They simply put me in the airing
> > cupboard to keep me warm. (No things like incubators were available back
> in
> > 1947) When I was a month old, I was finally weighed in at 4lb 4oz fully
> > clothed!
> >
> > My prayers, of course, for mother, baby and all the family.
> >
> > God bless
> >
> > .....
> > .....
> > Michael Bishop
> > rev at michaelbishop.name
> >
> >
> > On 29/07/2018 14:10, Jay Weigel wrote:
> >
> >> Oh my goodness, Grace. Prayers that everything goes well and that baby
> >> gets
> >> to a reasonable size by 34 weeks before they do the C-section. 4-5 lbs
> is
> >> way too small to be out here!
> >>
> >> Prayers for your DIL's sister Dayanna, Clarissa. That's a shocker.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 5:58 PM, Clarissa Canning <canplum at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Prayers will be said.  I ask Prayers for Dayanna my D-¡N - Law sister
> who
> >>> waited till after My Granddaughter's birth to tell Gaby  about 2 stage
> B.
> >>> cancer.  Their mother from Peru has come. Dayanna  has 2 young boys. I
> >>> believe she in her 30s. chemo is starting ... I hope to meet Mamábuela
> >>> tonight.
> >>> Thank you. She is RC.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018, 12:39 PM ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> And a friend who endured weeks of bed rest in a teaching hospital lying
> >>>>
> >>> on
> >>>
> >>>> her left side,
> >>>> only allowed to get up once a day.
> >>>>
> >>>> Baby Julia is now in her thirties and doing human rights work in South
> >>>> America.
> >>>> -M
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Saturday, July 28, 2018, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Prayers rising !
> >>>>> My neighbor, a nurse in her late 30s, just went through this exact
> >>>>> situation at 34 weeks with great success -she had a Cesarean and mom
> >>>>>
> >>>> and
> >>>
> >>>> babe's situation improved immediately after delivery - 5 weeks later
> >>>>>
> >>>> all
> >>>
> >>>> is
> >>>>
> >>>>> still going well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >
>