Our short journey is over.

I was an avid reader looking for any sort of hope. I (29F) gave birth to our 23 weeker on 1/8/25. Little girl was feisty, a wiggle worm who wouldn’t stay in position and drove all the PT crazy!

Our little girl weight just a pound at 23w3 days had many odds against her. A 3/4 level brain bleed, a large PDA, and NEC. Unfortunately at 2 weeks and 6 days(26w2d) with us fighting a battle of her life, she just couldn’t do it anymore. She had an exploratory surgery that revealed a large perforation in her colon, they ended up removing a 3rd of her intestines and the remaining tissue was so severally inflamed her CO2 levels and the high acid in her blood were just hard to maintain.

Baby girl held on until 4am this morning when a local priest was able to baptize here and within the hour, baby girl was ready to return home with our Father.

This is still so hard to believe that I gained and lost a daughter all in a month, but I know our baby girl was loved to her full potential and she is no longer in pain. May you rest easy our tiny best friend and we will see you again!

Please hug and love your babies extra tight for me tonight. Thank you.