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Gastroschisis

gabriellesolizgabriellesoliz member
in High-Risk Pregnancy
Hi everybody. I'm measuring about 12 weeks 4 days and the other day we were told our baby has gastroschisis. Is anybody else going through this? Or know anybody who went full term?
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Re: Gastroschisis

  • Shellymomma3Shellymomma3 member
    I found your post when doing a search for gastroschisis (wanted to see if prior gastro mommies were deemed high risk for follow on pregnancies).

    I just wanted to share my son's story.  He is going to be 8 in August and unless you saw his scar (pretty small) where his belly button would be, you'd never know he was a gastro baby.  I found out after elevated AFP levels during a blood test.  An ultrasound confirmed it.  He was born vaginally at 35 weeks.  At birth his stomach, small and large intestines were exposed.  He was in surgery within two hours of being born and had a successful primary closure.  He was in the NICU just shy of 5 weeks.  No major complications in there but they weren't seeing the digestive progress as quick as they wanted, so they didn't let me feed him breastmilk until he was about 4 weeks old.  Once he started eating, it was only a few days and we were home!  The only post NICU complication he  had was a hernia at 3 months, they may not have even fixed it right away but he also had a double hernia in his groin that was causing problems, so they fixed it all at the same time.

    Please feel free to reach out and ask questions.
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