Janessa Janee Peck was born April 22nd 2010 at 12:29PM. Janessa weighed 8 pounds 9 ounces, and was 19 3/4 inches long! Our journey through out this pregnancy has been a rough one, and it continues to be so! Janessa has officially been diagnosed with MMIHS. Luckily for Janessa her lungs and heart are outstanding, and her kidneys only have slight damage, they have amazing numbers with no reflux. Her vitals are really good, and she seems to have no other problems than what the MMIHS caused.
Janessa right now is on TPN 24 hours a day. She has a stoma bag, and we have to catheterize her every three hours since she can't contract her bladder to push pee out! We are going to have a rough road ahead of us, and a lot of hard times in the upcoming future.
Right now Janessa is facing a battle, a difficult one. The nutrition that is going into Janessa(TPN) can cause severe liver disease, and infection can get into the line very easily, so everything we do must be very sterilized.
Some babies don't get affected by the TPN as bad as other babies, many have great livers at four or five years old and have been on TPN since birth, others start showing signs of liver disease at 6 weeks!
We are hoping to be able to trickle feed Janessa some breast milk, it reduces liver disease in babies! But right now her bile is not clear enough, but it is showing signs of improvement!! :) Janessa may need a transplant of her small bowel/stomach. We are hoping she doesn't need one in her liver as well...
All we ask for from everyone is to please keep praying for her, and keep her in your thoughts!! Please pray that she will have a chance at growing up, and will pull through this disease despite what literature states about it.
Janessa should be coming home in about 2 weeks!! :)
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