Re: Re: Hannah Quinn Update

[Guest guest]

Hi Cheryl and Barry,

Congratulations on the birth of Hannah Quinn. So glad to hear everything is

ok. I will check out her pictures. I have been thinking of all of you and

wondering what was happening. I was on vacation the week she was born and

checked the archives when I got back but didn't see anything.

It is an instant love when you have a baby and this love will grow more then

you can ever imagine. It is overwhelming to me sometimes the love I have for

my daughter.

Best of Luck to all of you,

Jeanne (Mom to Nicky 11, le 10, and 5 MDS-my angel.

[Guest guest]

Cheryl and Barry,

Congratulations!!! I'll also check out the photos :-).

Dan

Father to Luca 2 1/2, MDS

At 10:57 PM 9/14/99 -0400, you wrote:

>From: Angels2757@...

>

>Hi Cheryl and Barry,

>Congratulations on the birth of Hannah Quinn. So glad to hear everything is

>ok. I will check out her pictures. I have been thinking of all of you and

>wondering what was happening. I was on vacation the week she was born and

>checked the archives when I got back but didn't see anything.

>It is an instant love when you have a baby and this love will grow more then

>you can ever imagine. It is overwhelming to me sometimes the love I have for

>my daughter.

>Best of Luck to all of you,

>Jeanne (Mom to Nicky 11, le 10, and 5 MDS-my angel.

>

>---------------------------

[Guest guest]

Congrats Cheryl!

She sounds like a beautiful little girl.

, mom of ..... 3 weeks and counting to genetic testing and

.

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> To: MosaicDSonelist

> Subject: Re: Hannah Quinn Update

> Date: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 9:11 PM

>

>

>

> A quote by Margaret Drabble

>

> " I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning,

> when the baby woke for her feeding, because I so longed to have another

> look at her. "

>

> A love affair with our children starts the moment they are born. For

> some of us, it begins earlier. The closeness of carrying a child in the

> womb makes separation seem strange.

>

> Night feedings may be inconvenient. Yet we long for our child to awake

> just to get another look. Though we don't yet know the traits of her

> personality, she is like a close friend who has come a long distance to

> visit, and we want to stay up all night just to be together.

>

> Nothing can compare to the bliss that surrounds a newborn and her

> mother.

>

> from " Meditations for New Mothers " , Beth Saavedra

>

> Hello everyone! I know you all have been waiting and I wish I could

> have posted an update earlier but I am just now getting back my senses.

> I am in love. My little Hannah Quinn is the light of my life. She is

> as precious as they come. My poor husband thinks I have forgotten he

> exists, but the real truth is that he is just as much in love with our

> precious package as I am, and we both tend to forget each other. That

> will pass in time.

>

> In a nutshell, Hannah Quinn was born via an unscheduled c-section on

> Sept. 1 at 8:32 p.m. We were induced into labor earlier that day as

> scheduled, but after many hours of somewhat hard labor and a start and

> stop of pitocin a couple of times to regulate Hannah Quinn's heartbeat,

> my doctor and I decided we couldn't wait any longer. It was not an

> emergency c-section, but it was pretty fast. Within a couple of hours

> after the decision, she was delivered.

>

> Her heart still has the defect, AV Canal Defect, and we knew it would

> not repair itself prenatally. But her heart is pumping strongly and she

> is otherwise very healthy. She came home from the hospital with me 3

> days later. She was a bit jaundiced which disappeared after about 3

> days. The cardiologist told us that one of the ductus valves in her

> heart had not closed at that point (not related to the AV Canal defect)

> and we needed to bring her back in in three days to have it checked and

> it checked out fine. The NICU sent us home with a heart monitor for the

> first few days also. The alarms didn't go off one time. After her

> appointment they told us we didn't need it any more. Once a month

> appointments between now and December, surgery will probably be

> performed in December of January.

>

> The genetics testing of her blood verified mosaic ds at 20% in her

> blood. The original amniotic percentage was 30-50%. It doesn't make a

> difference. She is our angel no matter what. We will be contacting EI

> very soon and will take full advantage of all of the services offered at

> this point. Assessment could be a daily thing, but I prefer not to

> assess, I will treat her as if she were normal.

>

> I am slowly healing, c-sections are no fun. My back is in the worst

> shape - I can't be on my feet more than a few minutes at a time without

> being in pain. But the swelling has come down a lot, my ankles finally

> look normal again!

>

> I will be updating my website in the next few weeks with a complete

> detail of the labor and delivery. In the meantime, I have posted

> pictures on the website of Hannah Quinn at

> http://members.home.net/littleone.htm

>

> I will keep in touch.

>

> Cheryl

>

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