Did your child beat the odds? ?

Question

My 7 week old baby girl is in intensive care with a very severe lung disease and blood infection, we were told yesterday that its more likely then not that she won't make it. Today she suprised us all and make an improvement for the first time in two weeks.

My question is how many people have been told that their child was going to pass away and had them beat the odds? Do you know anyone who has?

Answer 1

I know the parents of twin boys who were born at 24 weeks.  One of them was supposed to die within a few hours.  Oddly enough, he was the one who survived.  Sadly, his brother passed away.  The surviving boy who wasn't supposed to make it through the night is now a happy, healthy toddler.

In addition, one of my son's friends was born at 26 weeks, weighing barely a pound.  The doctors said he probably wouldn't make it, and that he'd have severe developmental delays if he did.  He not only made it, but learned to walk by 14 months old (11 months corrected), was talking up a storm by 17 months old (14 months corrected), and is now an extremely bright, healthy, and TALL preschooler.  

I'm sorry to hear about your baby, and I'm praying that she will pull through and beat the odds.

Answer 2

My sister's son developed an infection from her water being broke for too long, and they told us he wasn't going to make it.  Today, he just turned 2 and is a mean, active little boy!  Don't give up!

On another note, my stepsister is in the hospital right now, just got off life support, and the night she went in, she had died, they revived her, but they told us she wasn't going to make it through the night. She woke up from her coma Thursday, a week after her accident, and she was taken off life support Friday.  So doctors aren't always right when they say that somebody isn't going to make it.  They just like to err on the side of caution and not get your hopes up!  Keep your head up!!!!!!

Answer 3

My niece is a down syndrome child (not sure how you say that) and she had to have multiple open heart surgery operations during her first few years (i think about three). She lives in a different country and i see her once a year but we're not that close to her family, we don't speak that often so the situation is not the same as yours, but it was so weird -for lack of another word- when i went to visit her last summer to see that she had one of the awards that children get when they "survive" big operations like that. The award wasn't weird, it was more tha fact that they gave it to them a year after the surgery just in case the child doesn't make it.

Just makes one think....it was really touching

Answer 4

my daughter beat the odds just being born. she has a rare chromosome condition and 99% of babies concieved with the condition don't make it to a live birth