[Magdalen] Prayer request

[Lynn Ronkainen]

NICUs are way more parent friendly than they used to be. Wilson, almost 3,  spent a week there. Parents could come/go/stay/sleep there to and have almost constant access to being near and touching/talking to him despite tubes and such. 
Lynn

On Jul 30, 2018, at 12:19 PM, Ann Markle <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu> wrote:

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.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>> 
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