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Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy - birth story

Jun 05, 2015 19:37

Hello...

James Lawrence arrived exactly a month early on Feb. 8, 2015, 2:15pm weighing 5 lbs 1 oz / 2310 g

( birth story under the cut; early arrival & liver failure )

complications - mother, birth stories- surgical, emergency room visits, surgical birth, constipation, vision issues, meconium

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starrynight June 6 2015, 00:37:14 UTC

4 months and 14 lbs? wow. My little guy is 16 lbs and nearly 8 months old. He's also formula fed since my milk never came in.

That is one HELL of a story. I'm really glad you two are doing well. It's a shame they never figured out what was causing the liver issue. Imagine what would have happened if you didn't call 911.

kamomil June 6 2015, 02:47:14 UTC

The liver failure can be caused by a genetic condition where the baby's liver cannot process fatty acids, then the mother's liver gets overloaded and begins to fail. However nothing was picked up with the newborn heel prick screenings, and my province does check for them, LCHAD and MCADD.

The other reason could be an overload of pregnancy hormones. I was told that I shouldn't take hormonal birth control now.

Yes I am grateful that we both came out of this in good health. I joined an Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy group on Facebook, and reading their stories, many women lost a baby from it not being caught soon enough.

ayashi June 6 2015, 05:42:39 UTC

Congratulations on the cute little one :)

Very glad both you and the little guy are doing well now. That must have been scary!

kamomil June 7 2015, 03:20:02 UTC

It wasn't scary for me, however I am glad I wasn't awake to see my boyfriend's reaction to everything.

All I knew was I was in a hospital and people would help me. I was not worried. I had been miserable for about a month leading up to that and I was so ready for the pregnancy to be over. That I couldn't feel the baby's movements, I knew they HAD to do something, they couldn't just send me home again :)

Also maybe my brain was affected by the liver failure.

If they had told me when I woke up, "we did a liver transplant" THEN I would have been terrified.

redfield79 June 6 2015, 13:32:29 UTC

Wow that's one hell of a story!-congratulations on the little one :-)